Essence Quotes

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to h...

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may no...

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If ...

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names...

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form,...

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfa...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to h...

We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel...

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...

Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't...

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though ...