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Quotes About Essence

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
~ Josef Pieper
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
~ Victor Hugo
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
~ Joseph Conrad
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
~ William Saroyan
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
~ William S. Burroughs
Truth is in things, and not in words.
~ Herman Melville
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
The great seal of truth is simplicity.
~ Herman Boerhaave
What is not in nature can never be true.
~ Voltaire
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
The soul is the truth of who we are.
~ Marianne Williamson
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.
~ Frank Shamrock
Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~ Jim Lehrer
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
~ Remy de Gourmont
If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
~ Eugene J. Martin
The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.
~ Dennis Quaid
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
~ Meister Eckhart
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
~ Therese of Lisieux
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
~ David Mitchell
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
~ Alix Ohlin
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
~ Chuck D