Quotes About Essence

When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Desire is the very essence of man

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

Each man's soul is his genius.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.