Quotes About Essence

Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.

A humble person lives from the part of themselves that is immortal.

What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God

Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous.

Desire, not experience, is the essence of life; experience becomes the tool of desire in the enlightenment of mind and the pursuit of ends.

His only occupation is to contemplate the essence of things; and since he himself is the essence of all things, the form of all forms, his sole employment is the contemplation of himself. 40 Poor Aristotelian God!—

within, by its nature and structure and entelechy;

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

We ought to recollect ... that a book consists, like man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul.

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

Yes, we laughed, because I have learned this at least during these four years: that it really requires an empty stomach to laugh with, that only when you are hungry or frightened do you extract some ultimate essence out of laughing just as the empty stomach extracts the ultimate essence out of alcohol.

La pureza es un estado negativo y por tanto contrario a la naturaleza.

Die Dinge, auf die es im Leben wirklich ankommt, kann man nicht kaufen.

With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.

it seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places.

Christianity has a basic content, and that content matters.

We breathe love in and we breathe love out. It's the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls.

The concept of the State implies the concept of war, for the essence of the State is power… That war should ever be banished from the world is a hope not only absurd, but profoundly immoral.

simple" is finding the core of the idea.

finding the core," and expressing it in the form of a compact idea

Be simple. Not simple in terms of "dumbing down" or "sound bites." You don't have to speak in monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by "simple" is finding the core of the idea.