Quotes About Essence

If you judge art be its cover, you efface the very essence of it

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.

You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

the essence of prayer is not to think a lot, but to love a lot.

Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted.

I live because I do not exist.

Het zonlicht over de schouder van de winkelbediende was wit en gelijkmatig, en toen hij ons glazen water inschonk was het het helderste water dat ik ooit had gezien. Het was de onverdunde ziel van de wereld.

I regard the essence of the notion of process as given by the statement: Not only is everything changing, but all is flux. That is to say, what is the process of becoming itself, while all objects, events, entities, conditions, structures, etc., are forms that can be abstracted from this process.

The core of your life is your purpose

Cuando necesitas a una persona para llenar tu vida es porque en realidad tienes un vacío dentro de ti. Cuando necesitas a una persona no la amas en el sentido más espiritual del término, porque amar es pasar por encima de ti mismo, por encima de tus necesidades egocéntricas y entregar la esencia de tu alma, el amor.

No hemos venido a esta vida a lograr metas, hemos venido para recordar que nuestra verdadera esencia es de paz y tranquilidad.

It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul.

Also essential to math is the sense in which abstracting something can mean reducing it to its absolute skeletal essence, as in the abstract of an article or book. As such, it can mean thinking hard about things that for the most part people can't think hard about-because it drives them crazy.

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked; and then that horrific interval between realizing what you've overlooked and turning your head to look back at what's been right there all along, the whole time...

Y tomaba mi silencio por aprobación. La esencia del abismo era que ella creía que no existía ningún abismo

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked.

As I see it, even though the cartridge's end has both characters emoting out of every pore, Accomplice!'s essential project remains abstract and self-reflexive; we end up feeling and thinking not about the characters but about the cartridge itself.

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity]

Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.