What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of good government is trust.
Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
