Quotes About Essence

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Man's existence precedes his essence

Man is more than constitutions.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.