Quotes About Essence

man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to his humanity.

Money can't buy you life

What's the one thing — not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing — in the box?

I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Once people figure out your way of thinking you have lost your true essence. Always let people wonder - you will always be interesting.

The names were supposed to describe the shape of your spirit as well as your physical characteristics.

He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head were precise and clear, their meaning was absolutely obvious. But when they emerged in the form of phrases, the superfluous husk simply fell away of its own accord and only the essential idea was left. Probably sometimes rather more fell away than ought to." Excerpt From EF06 - The State Counsellor

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence, to start from something the customer might see—the public announcement—and work backward.

All of us are, as Mr. Stevens said, "condemned to be that inescapable animal, ourselves.

One does not love breathing.

S?fatlar? ç?kar?rsan gerçekler kal?r.

Bir cümleden s?fatlar? kald?r?rsak geriye gerçekler kal?r.

Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal.

People never really reinvent themselves. They migrate back to whatever they truly were.

That is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she cannot be deliberately promulgating a proposition that she presumes to be false: Her statement is grounded neither in a belief that it is true, not, as a lie must be, in a belief that it is not true. It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth - this indifference to how things really are - that I regard as the essence of bullshit.

You strike through to the heart of the matter

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way - cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.

No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.