Quotes About Essence

The factor Hegel excludes is the mystery of a history that wends its way into the future without our knowing its end. History as a whole is essentially not an object of cognition; the meaning of the whole is not discernible.

It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea.

Alte Wahrheiten sind und klingen nicht originell, doch es sind und bleiben Wahrheiten, und das ist die Hauptsache.

Where the past has ceased and the future has not yet arisen, In the unimpeded state of present wakefulness, Rest in the manner of mind looking into mind. No matter what thoughts may arise at this time, They are all the display of the single mind essence. As the nature of space is unchanging, You will realize the all-pervasive mind essence to be changeless. This is the Great Perfection (dzogchen), the ultimate of all vehicles, The unexcelled meaning of the self-existing Mind Section.

Of course, all forms of creativity are a way of dipping one's toes in the essence of the divine.

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Every human life has a secret essence, it's a secret even to the possessor, because you don't know what to make of it.

Nobody knows why some systems—rivers, forests, possibly the London Underground but we're not sure—acquire a genius loci. Not even the genii locorum themselves know the why and the how of it—they only know it happens.

That's the nature of the beast," said Zach. "We are what we are.

Breathing itself was considered the first language.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

el mundo es un gran código que debemos descifrar. No me cabe duda de que hay hombres que nacen con el don de ver la esencia de las cosas y que tienen un conocimiento secreto de la verdadera naturaleza de la materia y sus posibilidades.

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

No Wood without Bark.

What you would seem to be, be really.

MORDICO: Yes, to speak of an "un-American poetry" is to be anti-modern, searching for an essence, not in words but among words—to help English grow a limb it does not have.

I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.

At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.