Quotes About Essence

la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.

Hegel, the great eighteenth-century German philosopher, maintained that the essence of tragedy derives not from one character being right and the other being wrong, or from the conflict of good versus evil, but from a conflict in which both characters are right, and thus the tragedy is one of right against right, being carried to its logical conclusion.

Eu? Eu nu am facut nimic. -Respiri. E de ajuns.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

I cannot undo myself

In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in.

Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.

The River Unceasing appears to be just a line of water, flowing from here to there. Yet he is more. Much more. He is all that he is—including whatever hides beneath the surface.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This is the way the world ends. from The Hollow Man

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown, Lilac and brown hair;

But poets more classical than they have the same essential quality of transmuting ideas into sensations, of transforming an observation into a state of mind.

And what is the real you. I haven't much experience, But I see something now which doesn't come from tutors Or from books, or from thinking, or from observation:

And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high place who have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers because the indolence of many is the opportunity of one. Such men lead multitudes astray.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers. Aly propped her chin on her hand. So does manure, she observed.

We are what we're made to be.

What gives you to suppose I have a soul?

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.

Mindful of Schopenhauer's Buddhist affinities, one might venture a summary of the four-booked World as Will and Representation by means of four 'noble truths': the world is my representation; its essence is will, that is to say, suffering; temporary release from suffering is possible through art; permanent release is possible through 'denial of the will', that is to say, death.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production -- any work where you do work with other people -- of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.