#sence

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#away #essence #famous #get #girl

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #nature #only #symbol #uniqueness

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership. ↗

— Chris Patten

#about #articulate #clear #doing #essence

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#ambassador #his #never #presence #present

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#everything #integrity #successful

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice #mere

Desire is the essence of a man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#essence #man