Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Art Quotes, Essence Quotes

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

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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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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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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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Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

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My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.

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

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

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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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I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

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