Quotes by Essence Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine transcendentalismdivorcedessence The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less. William A. Henry III essenceideasschool The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature. William Ames essencefatherson This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. William Ames subsistencepropertyessence The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give. William Arthur Ward spicesessencegiving What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same. William C. Brown stupidityitalianessence All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence. William Butler Yeats purposeessenceart This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. William Ernest Henley realessenceart We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought? William Ernest Hocking essencereligiousideas Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation. William Feather linkedcooperationessence The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. William J. Bernstein essenceusenumbers The essence of poetry is will and passion. William Hazlitt passionpoetry-isessence The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. William James philosophicalgeniusessence Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt prejudiceessenceworld The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening. William James essencegivingmen But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion. William James essencesoulprayer The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom. William O. Douglas academic-freedomessencegraduation Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. William O. Douglas governmentessencerights The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability. William Poundstone shannonessencemessages Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. William Scranton strongessencemorning«8889909192939495969798»
