Quotes About Essence

Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...''Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

The real things about man are not his body.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.