Quotes by Essence ...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern. Philip K. Dick governmentessenceevil Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions. Philip Sidney lightessenceplato In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour. Philippe Halsman humorousessencehands Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. Philip Yancey essencefeelingsbook Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Pier Giorgio Frassati catholicessencetwo The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence. Pierre de Coubertin strengthhumansessence The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. Piet Mondrian paintinglinesessence Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin progressessencemen What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin essencerootsmind Being resilient is the essence of my life. Pom Klementieff resilientessence The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge. Plato self-knowledgeessenceself Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation. Pope Benedict XVI achievementessencereligious The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! Pope Benedict XVI encountersspeakessence You should love one another and behave lovingly Prem Rawat humilityessencelove-is And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. Plato essencelove-isorder By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship. Pope Benedict XVI reformessencematter At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. Queen Rania of Jordan the-end-of-the-dayimportantessence Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. Plato essencelawbeautiful To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! Pythagoras words-of-wisdomessencesoul My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated. Quentin Crisp guiltgriefessence«6869707172737475767778»
