Best essence & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.”

Way Giving Use Past Spiritual Spirit Turns Mistake Essence Treats Angry Symbols Our Past Negation Connotation Wholesale

Author:John Cowper Powys

“Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.”

People Knows Want Art Hands Happens Care Form Turns Forget Roots Essence Things Happen Torn Torn Apart Multimedia

Author:Nas

“The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.”

Two Real Turns Politics Poor Economy Rich Capitalism Essence Competition Profit Real Life Features Abstract Liberalism Killers Profit Maximization

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.”

Humans Heart Turns Influence Holy Pure Essence Scripture Dependent Moderation Detached Refinement Utterance Holy Scriptures Tact Tablets Conditional

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.”

“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.”

People Ifs Way Want Character Desire Turns Events Drama Conflict Essence Internals Combustion Desire To Change

Author:Miranda Richardson

“If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn, philosophy has interrogated itself about the destiny of Europe as something that touches its very essence.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Moments Turns Destiny Europe Essence Dramatic

Author:Roberto Esposito

“It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.”

Ends Matter Turns Courses Essence Details Judged Cartoon Vivid Heartbreaking Exaggerated

Book:Among the Missing

Source: Among the Missing

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.”

Way Want Firsts Kind Has Beens Said Turns Felt Religious Deals Doubt Essence Sight Myth Tendencies No Doubt Legends Love At First Sight Precise Retrospective Religious Truth Clairvoyance

Author:Milan Kundera

“What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?”

Character Stories Would Be Turns Left Sides Common Situation Empty Essence Love Story Dumb Concrete Castles Illusory Ophelia

Author:Milan Kundera

“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.”

Ifs Men Firsts Mean Made Turns Existence Scene Essence Existentialism Indefinable Existentialist

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Hands Eye Turns Dark Behinds Sky Drink Thousand Lucky Gold Essence Towns Green Belly Purple Altars Liquor Herbs Flare Mardi Gras Glow In The Dark Chartreuse

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.”

Children Turns Father Steps Journey Taste Essence Fruit Planes Fatherhood Father Son Begin Again Great Father Daughter To Father Fatherhood Inspirational Father Child

Author:Angelo Patri

“Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top”

Play Joy Turns Games Essence Filled Bottom Circles Cease Wheels Inconsistency

Author:Boethius

“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.”

Firsts Believe Spirit Turns Essence Christmas Make Believe Christmas Spirit Transcendentalism Charity At Christmas

Author:Stephen Leacock

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

“Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

Matter Turns Modern Creation Birth Creatures Destruction Essence Seasons Physics Rhythm Manifest Physicist Living Creatures Birth And Death Shiva Modern Physics Creation And Destruction

Author:Fritjof Capra

“So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.”

World Way Want Firsts Important Self Purpose Turns Community Path Ego Essence Creator Deeper Evolve Our World Purpose Of Life Reach Out Awakened Our Community Emergence Activate

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.”

People Thinking Matter Philosophy Wisdom Together Turns Process Understanding Seeing Essence Insight Opening Dimensions Formulas Expecting Harvest Crops Tuning Coherence

Author:Kenny Smith

“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”

Love Needs Heart Turns Fire Gold Essence Dust Temples Splendor Fire Of Love

Author:Rumi

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