Quotes About Essence

2. The essence of things are from all eternity, and unto all eternity shall remain immutable; The existence of God is essence; Therefore...

En la Sustancia (en Dios), esencia, existencia y potencia productiva quedan estrictamente identificadas, de manera que la Sustancia (Dios), lejos de crear todo lo que es, lo produce en y desde sí misma:

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

The only reason for life is life. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body. George Macdonald, 1892

God is Love. Love is the deepest depth, the essence of his nature, at the root of all his being.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ...

Everything, dreaming and all, has got a soul in it, or else it's worth nothing, and we don't care a bit about it. Some of our thoughts are worth nothing, because they've got no soul in them.

Light unshared is darkness. To be light indeed, it must shine out. It is of the very essence of light, that it is for others.