Quotes About Essence

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one. Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; 'I and my Father are one.' The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul.

Breath is the soul and soul is the breath.

the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.

When you are genuinely being your true self, you need no words of explanation. You just are.

You need to capture that essence, the part of you that makes you special, the part of you that makes you sing.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

Als naturalisten en materialisten zijn wij een essentiële categorie kwijt geraak, namelijk die van het begrijpen van de onzichtbare werkelijkheid die van het paradoxale mysterie

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

So, Einstein's theory of gravity is a theory of causal structure. It tells us that the essence of spacetime is causal structure and that the motion of matter is a consequence of alterations in the network of causal relations. What is left out from the notion of causal structure is any measure of quantity or scale.

A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

This is it. This is what it really means. This is what it is all about.

It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

No matter how sophisticated the style or elegant the setting, soul is the bottom line.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

In the end, writing is like a prison, an island from which you will never be released but which is a kind of paradise: the solitude, the thoughts, the incredible joy of putting into words the essence of what you for the moment understand and with your whole heart want to believe.

The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman.