Quotes About Essence

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.