Quotes About Essence

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

And I knew that who I was was not entirely dependent on my results. I am who I am because of who I am, not because of the commodities I generate or even the, you know, the sacred objects that I generate. I am not my results. I am my process.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Sence aÅŸk nedir?" diye sordum Jed'e. Dal?p gidiverdi. "AÅŸk olaÄŸanüstü bir ÅŸeydir. DaÄŸlar? yerinden oynat?r; bir bebeÄŸin ç??l?klar?n? dindirir. Her insan?n kalbinde bir yerlerde sakl?d?r. Faka alt?ndan da k?ymetlidir. Sat?n al?namaz, sat?lamaz ya da çal?namaz. YaÅŸam kayna??m?zd?r." (syf. 107)

Sometimes I realize that if writing isn't, all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it's nothing. That if it's not, each time, all things confounded into one through some inexpressible essence, then writing is nothing but advertisement.

O clérigo pensou em Pitágoras, em Nicolau de Cusa, em um certo Copérnico cujas teorias, recentemente expostas na escola, eram acolhidas com entusiasmo ou violentamente rechaçadas, e um movimento de orgulho recordou-lhe a condição de membro da industriosa e agitada família de homens que domestica o fogo, trasnforma a essência das coisas e esquadrinha o itinerário dos astros.

You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Christ refers to the common thread of divine love that is the core and essence of every human mind.

Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good.

you dig deep enough into your mind, and deep enough into mine, the picture is the same: at the bottom of it all, what we are is love.

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

And the soul craves meaning the way the body craves oxygen.