Quotes About Essence

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The essence of the fourth noble truth is that we can use everything we do to help us to realize that we're part of the energy that creates everything.