Quotes About Essentially

In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.

All perceptions, all volitions occupy the same seat in these (cerebral) organs; the faculty of perceiving, of conceiving, of willing merely constitutes therefore a faculty which is essentially one.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

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

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not

The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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

His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Oh, what did it matter? This night, this glow, the cessation of anxiety and the sense that if living was not purposeful it was, at any rate, essentially romantic!

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

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.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.