Quotes About Essence

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of life and death. Because only in this way can we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence.

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes).

La insignificancia, amigo mío, es la esencia de la existencia.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

L'insignifiance, mon ami, c'est l'essence de l'existence. Elle est avec nous partout et toujours. Elle est présente même là où personne ne veut la voir : dans les horreurs, dans les luttes sanglantes, dans les pires malheurs. Cela exige souvent du courage pour la reconnaître dans des conditions aussi dramatiques et pour l'appeler par son nom. Mais il ne s'agit pas seulement de la reconnaître, il faut l'aimer, l'insignifiance, il faut apprendre à l'aimer.

Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

Schwere, Notwendigkeit und Wert sind drei eng zusammenhängende Begriffe: nur das Notwendige ist schwer, nur was wiegt, hat Wert.

o essencial no romance é aquilo que não pode ser dito senão por um romance, em toda adaptação só fica o que não é essencial

A nostalgia do Paraíso é o desejo que o homem tem de não ser homem.

E' un'ingenua illusione pensare che la nostra immagine sia solo un'apparenza, dietro la quale è nascosto il nostro io come unica, vera essenza, indipendente dagli occhi del mondo. (...) è proprio il contrario: il nostro io è una pura apparenza, inafferabile, indescrivibile, nebulosa, mentre l'unica realtà, fin troppo facilmente afferrabile e descrivibile, è la nostra immagine agli occhi degli altri. E il peggio è che tu non ne sei padrone.

For twenty years he had thought about nothing but his return. But once he was back, he was amazed to realize that his life, the very essence of his life, its center, its treasure, lay outside Ithaca, in the twenty years of his wanderings. And this treasure he had lost, and could retrieve only by telling about it.

De eso se desprende que el ideal estético del acuerdo categórico con el ser es un mundo en el que la mierda es negada y todos se comportan como sino existiese. Este ideal estético se llama Kisth elimina lo esencialmente inaceptable

The important thing was not what the conversation was but what it represented.

Lo que de la vida es insoportable, no es ser, sino ser su yo

Qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es la vida misma?

Mas o que vale a vida se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

Nur das Notwendige ist schwer, nur was wiegt, hat Wert.

Como já disse os personagens não nascem de um corpo materno, como os seres vivos, mas de uma situação, uma frase, uma metáfora que contém em embrião uma possibilidade humana fundamental que o autor imagina não ter sido ainda descoberta, ou sobre a qual nada ainda foi dito de essencial.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.

What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit.