Quotes About Essence

Live free or die is not just a slogan on a license plate. It is the very essence of who we are.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.

If the original essence of the thing which we fear could confidently lodge itself within us by its own authority it would be the same in all men. For all men are of the same species and, in varying degrees, are all furnished with the same conceptual tools and instruments of judgement.

To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1

Ruhumuz yapaca??n? gösteriÅŸ için yapmamal?, her ÅŸey içimizde, hiçbir gözün görmediÄŸi en gizli yerimizde olup bitmelidir.

Michel de Montaigne

Liberty, far from putting man in possession of himself, ceaselessly alienates him from his essence and his world

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

La medicina de las especies se compromete en una atención renovada a lo individual, una atención cada vez más impaciente y menos capaz de soportar las formas generales de percepción, las lecturas apresuradas de esencia.

There is an old saying: If appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science

El cuerpo no se elige —se decía— pero el alma sí; cada uno hacemos de nuestra alma lo que nos apetece que sea.

You can never be what you are not. You can only be you, and that's it. And you are you right now, and it's effortless.

Just to be alive is enough.

descubrió: Todo lo que existe es una manifestación del ser viviente

Qué es el yo verdadero? ¿Por qué no tomas otro nombre? La rosa no dejaría de ser rosa, y de esparcir su aroma, aunque se llamase de otro modo. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The real us is pure love; we are Life.

She did not need Miguel to explain that love, unconditional and unremitting, is the essence of life. She knew well that love based on conditions is a twisted copy of the truth, and yet it is there that humanity plays—there, in the shade of a metaphorical tree that wavers like a sullen mirage and scatters the seeds of a million lies.

Men, women, children - all have souls. Tables. Rocks. Wheels. Cups. All likewise have souls. Spirit lives in matter. All matter. Where else would it live?

Air, meskipun ia menggenang dan mengalir dan tak memiliki bentuk sendiri, adalah roda tempat kita dibentuk.

Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.

A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.