Top 32 Quotes About Esse

#1. To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

George Berkeley

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#2. You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

George R R Martin

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#3. Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Horace

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#4. My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

Chuck Norris

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#5. It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#6. People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.

Wayne Dyer

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#7. What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? - "Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The

Viktor E. Frankl

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#8. Even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

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#9. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#10. Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono, Tin noted in the journal he was sporadically keeping then. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Margaret Atwood

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#11. Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#12. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Paracelsus

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#13. Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

Shiri Appleby

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#14. I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

L.A. Reid

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#15. She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. (Esse)

Czeslaw Milosz

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#16. I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#17. Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#18. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#19. It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy (beatum esse velle), our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.

Hannah Arendt

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#20. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

Juvenal

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#21. I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
[Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

Plautus

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#22. All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Ben Bernanke

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#23. hadn't grown into being a woman, she had become a woman with an exclamation mark, the sort of hardy feminine brute of the Pleistocene from which all women, great and frail, are descended.

J. Ryan Stradal

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#24. Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Erin Morgenstern

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#25. Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

Ovid

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#26. No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#27. In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Horace

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#28. To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
[Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile
Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

Plautus

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#29. Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
Or sell their glory at a market-price!

William Cowper

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#30. He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

Plautus

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#31. To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

Zeno Vendler

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#32. Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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