All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (. . . ).
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
The essence of good government is trust.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
