Quotes About Essence

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence

Nadie conoce la esencia de otro ser humano si no lo ama.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized.

Freedom is not something we have and therefore can lose; freedom is what we are.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

People are—nothing more.

Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was, however; there she was.

And then there it was, suddenly entire shaped in her hands, beautiful and reasonable, clear and complete, the essence sucked out of life and held rounded here - the sonnet.

She didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.

I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

Empty, empty, empty, silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.

One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.

All mists curl off the roof of my being.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Van, ahogy van, a dolog most már valahogy biztos csakugyan van.

Like and like and like - but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is wiser to go directly to the quiddity, to the text, to the source, to the essence—and only then evolve whatever theories may tempt the philosopher, or the historian, or merely please the spirit of the day. Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Interview in Writers at Work(Fourth Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1976).

I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is wiser to go directly to the quiddity, to the text, to the source, to the essence—and only then evolve whatever theories may tempt the philosopher, or the historian, or merely please the spirit of the day.

L'estil i l'estructura són l'essència d'un bon llibre; les grans idees són estupideses. El estilo y la estructura son a esencia de un buen libro; las grandes ideas son estupideces

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse