Quotes About Essence

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Love is the very essence of life.

You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Search for the correct words. Organize those words into the correct sentences, and those sentences into the correct paragraphs. The past can be redeemed, when reduced by precise language to its essence.

Alternatively, perfection might be regarded as the absence of all unnecessary things, and the pleasures of an ascetic life.

If and when the gods come to an agreement about their relative positions—more particularly, if they arrange themselves into a hierarchy—it means that peace has genuinely been established, because peace is the establishment of a shared hierarchy of divinity, of value. Thus, an eternal question emerges whenever people of different backgrounds are required to deal with one another on a relatively permanent basis: What do all gods share that makes them gods? What is God, in essence?

if I was willing to sound cynical - that the only reason that psychiatrists diagnose their clients is so that insurance companies can pay the bills, and I actually believe that that's more true than the claim that the psychiatric diagnostic categories actually capture the essence of the person's problems.

a person's value does not rest on outward appearances, but on his true merits, what he really is.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

The combinations of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love which we are discussing... What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

Libre no es para Hegel quien hace lo que quiere, sino quien hace lo que debe hacer para realizar su esencia. La libertad de la historia no es, por tanto, la mera contingencia, el azar, o el acaso; la libertad de la historia es cumplimiento inexorable del fin, sumisión a sí mismo.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.