Essentials Quotes - Page 25

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Religion is life essential.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.