Quotes About Essence

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Me ayudó a darme cuenta de que ser no es lo que importa, sino cómo ser

He doesn't yet understand the outside is a shell for all of us. My beauty is on the inside, where it never fades.

the outside is a shell for all of us. My beauty is on the inside, where it never fades." She

A volte quello che vogliamo non è quello di cui abbiamo bisogno.

They are unchanging, because they have utterly become themselves and will never be otherwise.

Yet despite appearances, the interstate system is in fact a quintessential fractal when viewed through the lens of the actual traffic flowing on it, rather than when viewed simply as a physical road network. The traffic flow is the very essence of the interstate and is the fundamental reason for its existence.

Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

Most churchless people aren't looking for a church. They're seeking an encounter with God. And even if they're not seeking him directly, the vast majority are seeking to experience the essence of who he is: love.

Everyone is consistent in some things and not in others, yet ultimately true to some fundamental essence in themselves. The more things change, the more they stay the same; Newman was part mystic and part engineer, and he remained that way to the end.

The essence of things is not altered by their external relations, and that which, abstracting from these, alone constitutes the absolute worth of man is also that by which he must be judged, whoever the judge may be, and even by the Supreme Being.

Et træ eksistereri en træskikkelse, og derfor kan også mit liv, eller hele min families liv antage denne skikkelse.

Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilization, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her children. Nothing else mattered any more.

I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

I cannot now remember the exact sequence of events in those prehistoric years. That we cannot remember such things, that our memory, which is our self, is tiny, limited and fallible, is also one of those important things about us, like our inwardness and our reason. Indeed it is the very essence of both.

Les esprits aiment la nuit, qui sait plus qu'une femme donner une âme à toutes choses.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.

He was going mad and knew it, and somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off the hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and know that you were going mad -- to know that in a little minute you would be here physically and yet all the real essence would be dead and drowned in the black madness. For this was the Dark -- the Dark and the Cold and the Doom.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

It is the essence of a good title, in my opinion, that it means more after you have completed the story than before you started it. If that is not true, then either the title or the story, or both, is trivial.