Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Essence Quotes, Boredom Quotes

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Essence Quotes , Boredom Quotes

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Essence Quotes , Soul Quotes

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , New Relationship Quotes , Essence Quotes

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Essence Quotes , Age Quotes

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Humor Quotes , Essence Quotes

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Trust Quotes , Essence Quotes

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abigail McCarthy Quotes , Essence Quotes , Growth Quotes

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Doors Quotes , Essence Quotes

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Essence Quotes

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Essence Quotes

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Essence Quotes

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Men Quotes , Essence Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Essence Quotes , Growth Quotes

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Essence Quotes

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Essence Quotes

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Light Quotes , Essence Quotes

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abigail McCarthy Quotes , Essence Quotes , Growth Quotes

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Essence Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Quickness is the essence of the war.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Essence Quotes

Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Essence Quotes , Practice Quotes