Quotes About Essence

No tengas miedo de la difamación externa. Teme a tus propios pensamientos, pues solamente ellos pueden penetrar tu esencia y destruirla.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontologically severable, in Heidegger's terms, from Being towards Others? What if the mode of Dasein of Others were to dwell in Things, and so forth? In the same light, then, what if the Thing were a Dublette of the Self, and not what is called the Other? Or more radically still, what if the Self were in some fundamental way becoming a Xerox copy, a duplicate, of the Thing in its assumed essence?

You like me for who i am, you don't like me for who i am, and all you can get is who i am.

Human nature is so important than your life

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

sea of knowledge is very vast and life is short–so one should suck out the essence of all learning and cast aside the useless information by clearly sifting them through one's discertion.]

A poem has no meaning to me unless it represents the essence of love.

The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the Divinity that stirs within us.

The heart and passions of men are moved by things more within their attainment; the essential nature is stirred by the essential life; by the real actual existence of love, and hope, and character, and by the real literature which takes in its spirit, and which is in some sort its undefecated essence.

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

We've reached a point where people don't even know how to look for anything fundamentally important anymore.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

When you see who I am, you're getting a real character, a real person. R-Truth, that's me.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.

Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity.