Quotes About Essence

The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United Nations is about. We must position the multilateral system to better serve our people and deliver on their aspirations.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

The profound self is a universal self.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

I had to unlearn everything, as Maya's character is the essence of 'Allama.' She reflects feminism, an in-depth and powerful role where she feels that she can never lose.

All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It's not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.

She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.

A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.

I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'