Essentially Quotes

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Science, Simple, May

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Nature, Evil

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Happiness, Struggle

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama

Power, Two, Worry

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Between

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra

Moment, Choices, Existence

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

Religion, Art, Creation

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Him, Moral

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman

Greatest, Themselves, United

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

Positive, Everything, Poor

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.
Stephen Hawking

Brain, Difficult, Off

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Mel Brooks

Plan, Next, Needs

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga

Love, Music, Work

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel

Life, Jealousy, Hatred

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol

Great, Country, America

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Says, Answers

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky

Care, Put, Another

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

Religion, Again, Childish

Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana

Life, Music, Useless

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

Everyone, Fact, Guilty

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan

Society, Social, Whose

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard

Public, Private, Total

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Tom Stoppard

Philosophy, Between, Whole

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
David Herbert Lawrence

Age, Tragic, Refuse

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich

Money, Idea, Accepting

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'
Jerry Saltz

Love, Best, Movies

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz

Self, Become, Image

Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer

Government, Immoral

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
Terry Pratchett

End, Book, Matter

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