Quotes About Essence

It is futile to do with more things, that which can be done with less.

Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora [It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer]

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;

But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd— His glassy essence—like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

More matter with less art.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

William Shakespeare

Less art, more matter

What kind o' man is he? Why, of mankind.

Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

But I have that within which passes show. these but the trappings and the suits of woe

O! be some other name: What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet;

the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.

O be some other name.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

This memory of my relative indifference is important because such indifference demonstrates powerfully the outsider's inability to grasp the essence of the illness.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.

Now mark me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.' —WALT WHITMAN, The Open Road.