Quotes About Essence

The essence of Ciceronian philosophy is a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of human beings to one another and to the universe that encompasses them.

Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.

The living bird is not its labeled bones.

The body is pure energy, solidifed light.

It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

Strano l'amore, è catalogato tra i sentimenti, eppure per l'esistenza della vita è necessario quanto l'aria e l'acqua e ce ne accorgiamo solo quando manca, perché per fortuna, proprio come l'aria e l'acqua c'è bene o male sempre. Al massimo ce n'è poco, ma è quando manca davvero che la vita si spegne.

It's all here, everything we seek and need, inside us.

Dying people can teach us this most directly. Often the attributes that define them drop away—the hair, the shape, the skills, the cleverness. And then it turns out that the packaging is not who that person has really been all along. Without the package, another sort of beauty shines through.

our bodies surround what has always been there

One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to be desired. The pure relationship is limited, in space and in time. In its essence it implies exclusion. It excludes the rest of life, other relationships, other sides of personality, other responsibilities, other possibilities in the future. It excludes growth.

In a growing relationship, however, the original essence is not lost but merely buried under the impedimenta of life.

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. Yet, the problem is particularly and essentially woman's. Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman's life.