Quotes of: Essential Keyword

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Emile Durkheim

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

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Graham McTavish

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Cat Stevens

The eyes can often lie, not see what is essential. But the heart, never.

Anushka Bhartiya

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

allan chaimers

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

David Blunkett

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Time

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

Vincente Minnelli

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Walter Lang

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Kevin Spacey

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Michelle Bachelet

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Douglas Hurd

In spite of the string of magazine covers announcing the contrary, we all know that ten simple things will not save the earth. There are, rather, three thousand impossible things that all of us must do, and changing our light bulbs, while necessary, ...

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passag...

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place between the one and the other, the latter may, on that acc...

Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the crisp Fall air, with the leaves turning gold and the grass turning brown and the warmth going out of the sunlight and big hot fires in the fireplace while...

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson