Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Essence Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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

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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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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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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!

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

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Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

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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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What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

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

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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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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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All law has its essence in causation.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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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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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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

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