Sentence examples for as the essential thing from inspiring English sources

"If you want to know what 2 + 2 = 4 means," says Wittgenstein, "you have to ask how we work it out," because "we consider the process of calculation as the essential thing" (PG 333).

For this person, "the good of this world's life is regarded as the essential thing for a rational being to attend to.

The essential thing is to know as little as possible.

"The essential thing, as Gandhi saw, is to detach a regime from its means of support.

Abigail McCarthy, respected in her own career as a writer, once said, "The essential thing about Gene is that he's a private person, and in an all-confessional age, that's considered almost treachery".

"The essential thing for me, as a priest — as a biker-priest — is to show this community that God is close to them," said Father Audrain, who rides a BMW F 800 ST and has helped coordinate the Madonna of the Bikers since 2007.

The essential thing was to save the economy, as Geithner should know.

Writing — the written word — was the essential thing.

When I create music, the rhythm is the essential thing.

The essential thing is that the seeing itself is joyful".

The essential thing is to make a clear-cut start.