Essentials Quotes - Page 29

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.