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 is essentially a question of values.
Meir Kahane

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

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

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
Carl Andre

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
Tim Pawlenty

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

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Morton Feldman

Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
Leonard Nimoy

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
Anthony Bourdain

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis Borges

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.
Hilary Rosen

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.
Robert Asprin

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Vincente Minnelli

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Peter DeFazio

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Gene Tunney

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.
Gray Davis

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
Serge Lang