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Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.
We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.
Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.
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.
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.
The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil as you can get!
It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving lives here.
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.
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.