Now the essence the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so and lo it presently turns out to be so.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle the essence of life it is actually an illusion not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way that is the truth.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind mathematical and practical Truth for the body the Quintessence a combination of light and gold.

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?

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life contemplation meditation.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.