Quotes About Essence

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El deseo es la verdadera esencia del hombre" (Spinoza)

You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.

What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains.

You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.

Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated, essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy. These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us.

Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Thus the true cause of the blessedness of the good angels is found to be this, that they cleave to Him who supremely is. And if we ask the cause of the misery of the bad, it occurs to us, and not unreasonably, that they are miserable because they have forsaken Him who supremely is, and have turned to themselves who have no such essence. And this vice, what else is it called than pride? For "pride is the beginning of sin."

After you die, you wear what you are.

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence" (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).

Music will enable you to see past facts to the very essence of things in a way which science cannot do. The arts are the means by which we can look through the magic casements and see what lies beyond.

a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.

By contrast, the late-modern and post-modern self has in essence no essence. To this fragmented, fluid and compartmentalized self, denial, far from being an aberration, is only to be expected. This, however, is not just a change in world-views. Freud himself was quite clear that the unitary self of even the healthiest, 'integrated' person was permanently under siege. The self could never be fully socialized; denial and self-deception are part of being human.

The thing that eats the heart is mostly heart.

The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.

L'ammirare esteticamente il talento in ogni sua forma porta irresistibilmente ad analizzare se stessi, per vedere se nel proprio fisico ancora misterioso o nell'anima ancora semisvelata non vi sia traccia o possibilità di quella sublime essenza.

Una de las misteriosas leyes de la vida es que descubrimos siempre tarde sus auténticos y más esenciales valores: la juventud, cuando desaparece; la salud, tan pronto como nos abandona, y la libertad, esa esencia preciosísima de nuestra alma, sólo cuando está a punto de sernos arrebatada o ya nos ha sido arrebatada.

Porque lo esencial de la vida no es su reposo, sino su movilidad. Quién desea aproximarse a su esencia tiene que insistir en una externa peregrinación del espíritu, en una eterna inquietud del corazón cada paso de esa peregrinación es un acercamiento a uno mismo

The crucial question is not: am I with Someone, but rather, am I Someone?

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.