“Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.” KnowsWayWarProblemPurposeFightingRealizingPrinciplesCivilizationEssenceUniversalInstitutionsStructureWesternSolveGermanyNaziConfinedNazismWestern CivilizationBasic Principles Author:Peter Drucker
“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
“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.” MayDoeFormLawSpecialTheorySolutionsEssenceUniversalBasesMethodMathematicalReasoningProbabilityAssuredUniversal Laws Book:Collected Logical Works Source: Collected Logical Works
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.” IdeasRealEarthCoursesSunFireFashionEssentialsEssenceUniversalAffectionAttachmentSwingsModernity Author:Marsden Hartley
“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.” IfsNeedsMomentsLife IsDesireGivenPlanetsEssenceUniversalMoments In Time Author:Gavin Newsom
“Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.” MindMeanBodyEyeIndividualMeditationYogaEssenceUniversalTransformationUnionsProfoundMind And Body Author:Deepak Chopra
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.” MayIndividualBeliefGivenObjectsPureDegreesEssenceUniversalRelationDefinitionsComplexity Author:George Santayana
“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.” IfsArtWould BePoliticalSpiritValuesChristianityVirtueRightsEconomicLettersEssenceUniversalAbsolutesIndependentBotherCourageousContemptCynicismDefenceSplendorStoicEconomic Value Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“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
“The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.” SelfEternalUniqueEssenceUniversalIndividualitySymbolsGod Image Book:Jung on Christianity Source: Jung on Christianity
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.” MindHumansLeftForceProcessLosesLossExistenceEssentialsLosingEssenceUniversalBasesComplainingThanksWorthlessSnakesCalamityHuman ExistenceInexplicableParcelSlough Author:Rohinton Mistry
“The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.” InspirationalHeartSometimesCompassionEssenceUniversalLove And CompassionGood Heart Author:Dalai Lama
“Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)” MeanSoulSelfGodSpiritualityIndividualChristIllusionEssenceUniversalAbsolutesInfiniteSupremeMy SoulFiniteAbrahamSeparateness Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).” MenFeelsSelfIndividualConsciousnessPracticePlansCreationEssenceUniversalInfiniteIndividualityCirclesCellsRealisingHinduismCentreSageUniversality Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.” LinesPaintingEssenceUniversalColour Author:Piet Mondrian
“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.” StudyConcernedEssenceUniversalPropertyPrimariesSubstanceEcologyMetaphysicsDeep Ecology Author:Aristotle