Essentials Quotes - Page 6

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.

On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.