Quotes on Essentials

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

As it develops, then, the concept of social space becomes broader. It infiltrates, even invades, the concept of production, becoming part - perhaps the essential part - of its content.

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.