Quotes About Essence

SINCE EUCLIDEAN MEASUREMENTS—length, depth, thickness—failed to capture the essence of irregular shapes, Mandelbrot turned to a different idea, the idea of dimension. Dimension is a quality with a much richer life for scientists than for non-scientists.

To separate the effects of gravity on a given mass from the effects of air resistance was a brilliant intellectual achievement. It allowed Galileo to close in on the essence of inertia and momentum. Still, in the real world, pendulums eventually do exactly what Aristotle's quaint paradigm predicted. They stop.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

And then, one day, it was you." The real you. It was inside you. Your Awesome Self!

Hidden far away deep within you is the definition of your life that defines who you are.

Love me from the inside out, just because of who I am.

To be who you really are, its got to start inside you first.

The deepest secret nobody knows, is the only thing that ever has been real.

I've always felt almost real. I've always known that there's something about me that's different than other people. Sure, I'm stuffed into a old person's body, but that's just the shell. It's what's inside that's important. The soul. And my soul is very real.

In your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one can take that." Enjoy being you.

this tungsten spark we call our soul

In the particular is contained the universal.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...

What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete.

he wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld

Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.

essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

that palpable odor pumped out through the

Givenchy Dahlia Noir perfume that wafted toward me.

Someday we might only have a few seconds to figure out the meaning of life.

Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it's the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we're not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.

There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't captured the essence of his beliefs in martial arts or storytelling. The only way to get audiences to understand the depth and uniqueness of my father is to generate our own material.