“The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.” StatesIndividualModernParticularEssenceUniversalUnionsWelfare Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.” SoulSpiritualFoundSpaceSecretParticularMaterialsConversationDirectEssenceSupremeEncountersTouchedConstraintsSupreme Being Author:Avicenna
“I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.” KnowsTryingPlayParticularPicksEssenceTrainSpotsSupposed To BeBest Things Author:Dizzy Gillespie
“I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence. I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller. Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self. The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.” ThinkingBelieveDoeSaidSelfFactsBodyIndividualI BelieveDivineParticularPersonalityEssenceSacredNotionAncientCoreGod ImageInfidelIndividual Personality Author:Todd Rundgren
“Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.” ThinkingWayHumansCharacterFactsFeelingsIndividualNationsExistencePrinciplesRightsConditionsParticularProductsEssenceUniversalHistoricalLocalsFeaturesNationalityDistinctive Book:Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy Source: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
“There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.” PeopleThinkingWantMindCharacterWifeParticularDrawsEssenceExesThink Of MeAurasArchetypeEx Wife Author:Natalie Zea
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.” ThinkingWorldKindMadeStillsIdeasResultsBrainKnownEventsInformationParticularConnectionsEssenceRemainsCellsThese DaysAnalysisEncountersSuggestionsPsychologistSensoryCorrespondingHayekReinforcementVon Hayek Author:Gerald Edelman
“Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.” MomentsNationsProgressParticularEssenceWork In Progress Author:Simon Schama
“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.” WritingTryingMomentsForeverEventsParticularEssencePinsEcstatic Author:Denise Duhamel
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.” WorldSeemsHumanityParticularDepressionUniqueEssenceAccessMaskOverwhelmingRealismContinuingEngagingAlienationEstrangement Book:How to Be Alone: Essays Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.” HumansHappensDifficultMemoriesSpaceEffectsParticularEssencePerformancesDanceCriticalRhythmDiscussionTerminologyGreat Dance Author:Martha Graham
“Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.” PeopleGivingInspirationLeadershipVisionSubjectsParticularEssenceSubstitutesAdequatePolls Author:Hugh Mackay
“The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.” PeopleMenWarFormReligiousAbilityTalkingLordCreationDivineParticularDutyLetting GoEssenceSacredGods WillCatholicismDeclaringDenominationsMein KampfDivine WillReligious ViewsDeclaring War Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf