Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Mother Quotes, Essence Quotes

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

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Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

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My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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