Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Men 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.

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For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

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

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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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.

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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

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

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

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The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

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

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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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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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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.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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

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

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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

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