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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

– George OrwellRate it:

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

– William JamesRate it:

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

– James Anthony FroudeRate it:

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

– Aleister CrowleyRate it:

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ---Greatness.

– Aleister CrowleyRate it:

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

– UnknownRate it:

The essence of justice is mercy.

– Edwin Hubbel ChapinRate it:

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

– ConfuciusRate it:

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

– ConfuciusRate it:

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

– Vijay KrishnaRate it:

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

– Georges BatailleRate it:

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

– Georges BatailleRate it:

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

– Dietrich BonhoefferRate it:

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

– John Martin FischerRate it:

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

– EpictetusRate it:

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

– Aubrey MenenRate it:

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRate it:

The essence of this man -- Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.

– Henry KissingerRate it:

The essence of true Love is selflessness and kindness. -Emeasoba George

– Emeasoba GeorgeRate it:

The essence of writing is enkindled by the heart and soul of the thinker.

– Clifford Villanueva VillalonRate it:

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

– Ludwig Von MisesRate it:

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

– Bruce HendersonRate it:

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

– Pierre TrudeauRate it:

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