Quotes About Essence

What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are.

old. Letter eight contains his famous vision of the Beauty and the Beast myth: Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Words often quoted, or paraphrased

You are people in a labyrinth. Just be. He needed to say nothing more. It was the essence of everything. The distillation of a thousand sacred texts and self-help manuals. Life can be a maze. Don't always look for something more. Enjoy the now. Live for the moment.

Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple.

And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?

Humans are the beings whose essence is in not having an essence

Un existant n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il fait; le possible ne déborde pas le réel, l'essence ne précède pas l'existence; dans sa pure subjectivité, l'être humain n'est rien. On le mesure à ses actes.

Le nom, c'est ma présence totale rassemblée magiquement dans l'objet.

Le beau est le nécessaire, qui, tout en demeurant conforme à sa loi propre et à elle seule, obéit au bien.

Minä on vain synnin ja erehdyksen luoma varjo; synti ja erehdys pysähdyttävät Jumalasta säteilevän valon. Ja tätä varjoa minä luulen olennoksi. Vaikka voisikin olla Jumalan kaltainen, olisi sittenkin parempi olla liejua, joka tottelee Jumalaa.

So, when I am nothing—then am I a man?

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

We exist only to exist.

The beauty of being!

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.