Quotes About Essence

Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life.

Nobody is responsible for being here in the first place, for being constituted in such and such a way, for being in these circumstances, in this environment. The fatality of our essence cannot be separated from the fatality of all that was and will be.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentially the same throughout the ages.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.