536 Quotes About Essence

  • Author Abraham Joshua Heschel
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    Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

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  • Author Charles Evans Hughes
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    It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

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  • Author Ernest Holmes
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    God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

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  • Author Ernest Holmes
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    Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

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  • Author Garrett Hardin
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    The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

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  • Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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    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.

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  • Author Graham Hancock
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    We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

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