Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Essence Quotes

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

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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.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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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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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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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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It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

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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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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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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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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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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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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.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

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