Quotes About Essence

And truly must it be reduced to this stinking gas, my body? To say that I have a body because I have a stinking gas that forms inside me? (To have done with the judgement of God, 1947)

There where it smells of shit it smells of being. Man could just as well not have shat, not have opened the anal pouch, but he chose to shit as he would have chosen to live instead of consenting to live dead.

A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.

to be ME, Merewyn. These

Don't act. Be.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

si el alma se encuentra en todo cuerpo dotado de sensibilidad y si además suponemos que el alma es un cuerpo, necesariamente habrá dos cuerpos en el mismo lugar.

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?

For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.

Now we say that (a) the continuous is one or that (b) the indivisible is one, or (c) things are said to be 'one', when their essence is one and the same, as 'liquor' and 'drink'. If (a) their One is one in the sense of continuous, it is many, (10) for the continuous is divisible ad infinitum.

Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

The more perfect a nature is, the fewer means it requires for its operation.

the Chief Good we feel instinctively must be something which is our own, and not easily to be taken from us.

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack." "What does that mean, exactly?" "Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colors.

A man is only flesh and blood, after all; you can't fill a stomach with words.

It has long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.

The dreams of little children are often simple fulfilments of wishes, and for this reason are, as compared with the dreams of adults, by no means interesting. They present no problem to be solved, but they are invaluable as affording proof that the dream, in its inmost essence, is the fulfilment of a wish.