Plato Quotes, Self Quotes, Essence Quotes

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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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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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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Simplicity is the essence of universality.

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Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

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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?

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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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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 essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

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

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

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

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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

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