William Butler Yeats Quotes, Art Quotes, Essence Quotes

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.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

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The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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All law has its essence in causation.

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

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