Best essence & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."”

Problem Today Lost Speak Essence Introduction Estimation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.”

Thinking Humans Speak Kindness Grace Essence Lays Humanism Saving Emphasis Human Kindness Saving Grace

Author:Michael Dirda

“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

Persons Form Jesus Names Speak Goal Christ Divine Son Jesus Christ Essence Assuming Centre Trinity Prominent Corresponding

Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”

Trying Kind Reason Used Speak Wind Essence Philosophical Western Devices Establishment Popularity Sail Marxism Speaks Out Marxist Caricatures Determinism Reductionism

Book:Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

Source: West with the Night

“By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.”

Matter Facts Speak Position Worship Standards Essence Reform Matter Of Fact Liturgy

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.”

People Stills Speak Language Streets Music Is Essence Folks Hip Hop Hips Hops Zero Folk Music Ground Zero

Author:Talib Kweli

“Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.”

Mind Hands Speak Essence Freedom Of Religion Mind Freedom

Author:Mitt Romney

“Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself”

Has Beens Speak Essence Seeking Sufi Love Sufi Mystic

Author:Rumi

“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”

Giving Mean Ideas Wisdom Speak Creative Tree Glory Essence Consent Glory Of God Obeying Obeying God Creative Love

Author:Thomas Merton

“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.”

Speak Alive Essence

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”

Art Speak Powerful Music Effects Music Is Shadow Essence

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.”

Knows Mean States Science Speak Deals Knowledge Psychology Events Concepts Tasks Essence Affair Simplicity Physics Again And Again

Author:Niels Bohr

“The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!”

Speak Christianity Approach Essence Encounters

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“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.”

“The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."”

Mean Eye Past Speak Sin History Study Source Essence Sophistry

Author:Herbert Butterfield

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