Quotes About Essence

We're more than what we do.

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behaviour seeping out from under whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.

Each life has value and meaning—even the briefest.

The heart of my life; the life of my heart.

Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

Maybe Helmund is an angel after all. Maybe that's who he's been all along.

Charm is an essence, not a façade.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

There is a superior unity of all those who despite all, fight in different parts of the world the same battle, lead the same revolt, and are the bearers of the same intangible Tradition. These forces appear to be scattered and isolated in the world, and yet are inexorably connected by a common essence that is meant to preserve the absolute ideal of the Imperium and to work for its return.

My heart is not peripheral to me.

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Nu poÅ£i tr?i f?r? repetiÅ£ie, f?r? b?taia inimii, dar era adev?rat c? b?t?ile inimii nu însemnau totul în via??.

Nisipul... Lucrurile care aveau form? p?reau goale de orice conÅ£inut cînd erau puse al?turi de nisip. Singurul factor sigur era miÅŸcarea lui. Nisipul era antiteza formei.

What is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world.

We have seen that, like the weather, religion "does lots of different things." To claim that it has a single, unchanging, and inherently violent essence is not accurate. Identical religious beliefs and practices have inspired diametrically opposed courses of action.

The French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973) distinguished between a problem, "something met which bars my passage" and "is before me in its entirety," and a mystery, "something in which I find myself caught up, and whose essence is not before me in its entirety."69

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust.

You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.

Existing without or separated from the body.

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.