Quotes and Sayings About Essence
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
-- A. L. Rowse -
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there, deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!
-- Abhijeet Sawant -
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!
-- Abhinavagupta -
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.
-- Action Bronson -
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
-- Adam Nicolson -
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;
-- Agnivesh -
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
-- Al Gore -
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al
-- Al-Ghazali -
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
-- Alain de Botton -
When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning--and we will not be free again until we get it back.
-- Alan Keyes -
The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.
-- Alan Redpath -
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus -
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
-- Albert Camus
