“The Declaration was essentially an attempt to prove that rebellion was not the proper word for what they were doing.”
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (1922)
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“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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“There is no proper meaning … every expression is essentially tropic.”
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997) Greek-French philosopher
Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society, trans. Kathleen Blamey (Cambridge, Mass. 1987) p. 348 ([10.1093/camqtly/bfs004]).
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Source: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. IV, p.48-49
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 16
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
Short definition, tall order.
An Integral Spirituality
“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Letter to a Young Clergyman http://www.online-literature.com/swift/religion-church-vol-one/7/ (January 9, 1720)
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Address in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88871 (18 April 1864) <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.
