Quotes About Essence

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 minim youre a sleap and the nex youre on your feet with a spear in your han. Wel it werent you put that spear in your han it wer that other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals. It aint you nor it dont even know your name. Its in us lorn and loan and sheltering how it can.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

To violate beauty is the essence of sexual desire. To procreate is the essence of decay.

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Varl??? büyük bo?luklar? dolduracak mahiyette bir ?ey de?ildi; fakat yoklu?u müthi?ti.

trivial details were what true life was made of.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

The self is the same. Either you wear a masculine peel or a feminine peel. That is all it is.

true intelligence is just life and life—and that which is the source of life.

Love is not something you do; it is just the way you are.

In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.

There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.

Style," the well-known historian Peter Gay once wrote, "is not the dress of thought but part of its essence.

I am what I am. We are what we are.

This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?

There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. There is but one common substance of the whole world, though it be concluded and restrained into several different bodies, in number infinite. There is but one common soul, though divided into innumerable particular essences and natures. So is there but one common intellectual soul, though it seem to be divided.

Cast aside all that is extraneous and superfluous, and cling to the few things that really matter.

Three things there be in all, which thou doest consist of; thy body, thy life, and thy mind.

Whatever is beautiful owes its beauty to itself, and when it dies its beauty dies with it. Praise adds nothing to beauty, makes it neither better nor worse.

One addition to the precepts already mentioned. Always make a definition or sketch of what presents itself to your mind, so you can see it stripped bare to its essential nature and identify it clearly, in whole and in all its parts, and can tell yourself its proper name and the names of those elements of which it is compounded and into which it will be dissolved.

The salvation of life lies in seeing each object in its essence and its entirety, discerning both the material and the causal: in applying one's whole soul to doing right and speaking the truth. There remains only the enjoyment of living a linked succession of good deeds, with not the slightest gap between them. p121

Esse quam videri - To be, rather than to seem (to be)