#essence

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. ↗

— Terry Gross

#essence #hair #how #ideas #interested

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. ↗

— John Gunther

#find #first #journalism #know #out

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#electing #essence #going #legislate #sin

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#action #decisively #enough #essence #means

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#american people #democracy #essence #free #know

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#essence #humanity #individual #into #love

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#books #core #died #essence #heart

The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness. ↗

— Garey Gordon

#identity-love #purity-of-heart #love