Quotes About Essence

Así de sencillo.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

La mente selecciona, exagera, traiciona, los acontecimientos se esfuman, las personas se olvidan, y al final sólo queda el trayecto del alma, esos escasos momentos de revelación del espíritu

because in essence they were sisters—as, finally, most women are.

L'essenziale è spesso invisibile; è solo il cuore, e non l'occhio, a poterlo cogliere, ma la macchina fotografica a volte sfiora tracce di quella sostanza.

Consciente de que se requiere una gran ligereza para desprenderse del suelo, echó todo por la borda, se deshizo de sus bienes terrenales y eliminó sentimientos y deseos superfluos, quedándose sólo con lo esencial, escribió unas cuantas cartas y por último se tendió en su cama para no levantarse más.

comprendieron que las incontables almas, así como cuanto hay en el universo, son partículas de un espíritu único, como gotas de agua de un mismo océano. Una sola esencia espiritual anima todo lo existente. No hay separación entre los seres, no hay frontera entre la vida y la muerte.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

To do is to be.

To be is to do.

Everyone is in a small way the image of God.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Life's objective is life itself.

He is more within us than we are ourselves.