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Quotes About Essence

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
~ Auguste Rodin
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
~ Martin Luther
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself
~ Michel de Montaigne
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
~ Noam Chomsky
An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.
~ John of Damascus
Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
~ Edward Charles Titchmarsh
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.
~ Michael Beckwith
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
~ Paul Tillich
The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
~ Laozi
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
~ Charles Kingsley
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.
~ Gordon Hempton
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.
~ Jon Gordon
The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.
~ Justin Adams
The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.
~ Lee L Jampolsky
The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.
~ Leonard Jacobson