“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.” WayGivingUsePastSpiritualSpiritTurnsMistakeEssenceTreatsAngrySymbolsOur PastNegationConnotationWholesale Author:John Cowper Powys
“You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.” HumansViolenceConditionsEssenceTreatsHuman ConditionNormAberration Book:Carrion Comfort Source: Carrion Comfort
“The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.” HumansPoliticalHumanitySocialStuffHuman BeingsEssenceTreatsMereHuman LifePsychics Author:Laura Riding
“Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.” WantWellsBodySpiritRealizingLove IsEssenceTreatsWho You AreYour BodyTemplesOur RelationshipBody Is A Temple Author:Marianne Williamson
“The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.” WayEssenceTreatsGentlemanRespectable Author:Ne-Yo
“When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.” LooksCrossesEssenceTreatsAppearanceThreshold Book:Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung Source: Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung
“Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?” MenHas BeensForceFreedomAnimalLibertyMoralIssuesWrittenEssenceTreatsDictatorshipVolumeVersusPhysical Force Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.” TryingChildrenMightEyeMovingCitiesMorningSawsFailingUniqueGloryReflectionEssenceTreatsConvictionAppearanceDesperateSicknessAnxiousDedicatedTendernessOur LoveSeemingContagiousComradeFireworksOthernessMorning GloryAmputees Author:Angela Carter
“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.” MenHumansMaySocialGoalFreedomLibertyHuman NatureObjectsEssenceTreatsSocial JusticeDenyDenialLiberalismTreatmentFree WillManipulationManipulateDegradeReformersDegradingPatronizingMistreatment Author:Isaiah Berlin
“The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.” IfsWayChristianWishEssenceTreatsBest WayTreatedChristian Faith Author:Mike Huckabee