Top Essence Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Essence quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Francis Thompson
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
- Francis Thompson
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Image of Marina Warner
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.
- Marina Warner
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Image of Oscar de la Renta
The essence of style is how you live your life
- Oscar de la Renta
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Image of Abdurrahman Wahid
Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
- Abdurrahman Wahid
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Image of Gavin Newsom
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.
- Gavin Newsom
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Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
Conflict is the very essence of life.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Image of Alexander Theroux
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
- Alexander Theroux
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Image of Andrew Weil
The essence of health is inner balance.
- Andrew Weil
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Image of Charles Sanders Peirce
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Image of Julius Evola
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').
- Julius Evola
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Image of Kimora Lee Simmons
Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.
- Kimora Lee Simmons
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Image of David Brin
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.
- David Brin
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Image of Niels Bohr
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
- Niels Bohr
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Image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melody is the essence of music.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Image of Amy Krouse Rosenthal
At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Image of Jimmy Reid
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.
- Jimmy Reid
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Image of Gurbaksh Chahal
There is an essence of, when you are fearless, you become more creative, and the more fearless I became, the more creative I was.
- Gurbaksh Chahal
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Image of Tom Shadyac
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
- Tom Shadyac
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Image of Alvin Ailey
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
- Alvin Ailey
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Image of Chris Rose
It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.
- Chris Rose
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Image of Ben Stiller
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
- Ben Stiller
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Image of Richard Wagner
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
- Richard Wagner
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Image of Minor White
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.
- Minor White
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Image of Glen Cook
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
- Glen Cook
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Image of Alfred de Vigny
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
- Alfred de Vigny
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Image of Shannyn Sossamon
I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.
- Shannyn Sossamon
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Image of P.D. Ouspensky
Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
- P.D. Ouspensky
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Image of Sándor Márai
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
- Sándor Márai
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Image of Boethius
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.
- Boethius
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Image of Boethius
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top
- Boethius
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Image of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Image of Rumi
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.
- Rumi
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Image of John Searle
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
- John Searle
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Image of Carl Schmitt
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
- Carl Schmitt
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Image of David Mazzucchelli
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
- David Mazzucchelli
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Image of Bode Miller
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
- Bode Miller
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Image of Fritjof Capra
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.
- Fritjof Capra
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Image of Ed Parker
Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
- Ed Parker
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Image of Michael Novak
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.
- Michael Novak
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Image of Kristin Armstrong
Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.
- Kristin Armstrong
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Image of Reggie Watts
In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
- Reggie Watts
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Image of Han Suyin
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
- Han Suyin
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Image of Bahá'u'lláh
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.
- Bahá'u'lláh
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Image of Mike Nichols
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.
- Mike Nichols
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Image of Bruce Coville
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
- Bruce Coville
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Image of Richard Llewellyn
I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.
- Richard Llewellyn
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Image of Andy Warhol
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
- Andy Warhol
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Image of Alvar Aalto
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture
- Alvar Aalto
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Image of Gene Cernan
Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.
- Gene Cernan
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Image of Gene Cernan
Curiosity is the essence of human existence.
- Gene Cernan
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