essence quotes

• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. (Vladimir Nabokov) [literary style/essence/]
• The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ( Aristotle) [mind/essence/life]
• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. (Georges Bataille) [essence///human]
• Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Albert Camus) [rebellion/nostalgia/essence/being]
• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Thomas Carlyle) [more/contempt/essence/love]
• History is the essence of innumerable biographies. (Thomas Carlyle) [essence]
• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. (Charles Caleb Colton) [essence/selfishness]
• The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ( Confucius) [essence/knowledge/ignorance]
• The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [essence/greatness/virtue]
• Self-trust is the essence of heroism. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [essence/heroism]
• If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature. (Ludwig Feuerbach) [religion/religion/essence/truth]
• The essence of poetry is will and passion. (William Hazlitt) [essence/poetry/willpower/pleasure]
• The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. (Georg Hegel) [essence/state/family/society]
• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere. (Hermann Hesse) [essence/knowledge]
• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. (Victor Hugo) [essence/truth/light]
• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. (Glenda Jackson) [essence/forget/sound]
• The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness. (Henry Kissinger) [essence]
• The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. (Bertrand Russell) [essence/being/consciousness/moment]
• The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. (Virginia Woolf) [essence//soul & body/mind]
• I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. (Demi Moore) [essence/life]
• You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle. (Jude Law) [eyes/essence]
• The whole essence of Valmont was surface: dirt under polished fingernails. (Alan Rickman) [essence]
• I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that was OK. He said [in the documentary] he liked having pretty ladies about, and I thought that was the essence of the guy. He enjoyed life. (Anthony Hopkins) [look/essence/life]
• Peter's whole essence was very joyous, ... He was fearless, outrageous, and childlike, and he definitely lived life to the full. (Hugh Jackman) [essence/life]
• I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'm not saying that can't be great -- and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul. (Ralph Fiennes) [people/essence/essence/look]
• “We'll try to capture the essence of the first couple of films.” (Sylvester Stallone) [essence]
• “When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.” (Lili Taylor) [essence/moment]
• “Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.” (Art Garfunkel) [spirit/essence/truth/matter]
• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album. (Vanessa Carlton) [journey/soul & body/essence]
• “I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.” (Karl Urban) [benefit/think/essence]
• In essence, next to being born which I don't remember at all (I mean I suppose I could trace it back if I were to try), my first acid trip was the most illuminating experience of my life. (Larry Hagman) [essence/being/remember/trace]

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