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“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.”

Care Deals Liberty Virtue Conditions Decided Essence Property Take Care Pursuit

Author:Allan Bloom

“The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.”

Essentials Essence Property Abstract Complexity Description Software Entity

Author:Fred Brooks

“The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.”

Reason Facts Politics Economy Essence Institutions Property Corporations Liberalism Strain Private Property

Author:Peter S. Grosscup

“The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.”

Mind Firsts Soul Body Suffering Force Causes Space Existence Essence Property Primaries

Author:Sallust

“Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.”

Young Youth Essentials Essence Property Cease Be Young Young Ones

Book:The Mind-Body Problem

Source: The Mind-Body Problem

“The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.”

Children War Land Destruction Essence Property Destroyed Insanity Widowed

Author:Gary Paulsen

“The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.”

“.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.”

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.”

Essence Property Subsistence

Book:The marrow of theology

Source: The marrow of theology

“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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Author:Aristotle

“I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.”

Government Wish Crime Intellectual Essence Property Notes Organized Theft Intellectual Property Organized Crime

Author:Howard Berman

“Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.”

Men Giving Country States Vision Masters Depends Essence Let Me Property British Servant Inheritance Free Country

Book:Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977

Source: Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977

“The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.”

Father Son Essence Property Relative Participants

Author:William Ames