Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
Kim Weston

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
Franz Boas

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

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

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
Art Garfunkel

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Jack Bowman

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
Kate Millett

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt