Quotes About Essence

Faith in the real annihilation of the world - … a world antagonistic to the wishes of the Christian is therefore a phenomenon belonging to the inmost essence of Christianity[.]

Öteki dünya inanc? fantezinin hakikatine duyulan inançtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, t?pk? tanr? inanc?n?n, insan?n duygu dünyas?n?n hakikatine ve sonsuzluÄŸuna olan inanç olmas? gibi. Ya da: Tanr? inanc?n?n, sadece insan?n soyut özüne duyulan inanç olmas? gibi, öteki dünya inanc? da sadece soyut bu dünya inanc?d?r.

T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.

Man has given objectivity to himself, but has not recognised the object as his own nature. … [T]he essence of religion … is evident to the thinker … . [T]he antithesis of divine and human is altogether illusory; … it is nothing else than the antithesis between the human nature in general and the human individual.

T]he essence of man is one, but this essence is infinite; … Between me and another human being - … , even though he is only one, … he supplies to me the want of many others, has … a universal significance, is the deputy of mankind, … In another I … have the consciousness of humanity; … I … learn, I … feel, that I am a man: … community constitutes humanity.

Consciousness in the strictest sense is present only in a being to whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.

the present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is, in fact, held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

This [love] ought to be a furnace that should melt us all into one heart, and should create such a fervour in us … that we should heartily love each other.' But that which in the truth of religion is the essence of the fable, is to the religious consciousness only the moral of the fable, a collateral thing.

Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.

So long as love is not exalted into substance, … an essence, so long there lurks in the background of love a subject who even without love is something by himself, an unloving monster, a diabolical being, [who] … delights in the blood of heretics and unbelievers, - the phantom of religious fanaticism.

God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long as we have not met a being face to face, we are always in doubt whether he is really such as we imagine him; … Christ … is the … certainty that God is what the soul desires and needs him to be. … [O]nly in Christ is the last wish of religion realised, … [W]hat god is in essence, … Christ is in actual appearance.

It certainly is the interest of religion that its object should be distinct from man; but it is also … its interest that this object should have human attributes. That he should be a distinct being concerns his existence only; … that he should be human concerns his essence.

That which has essential value for man, which he esteems the perfect, the excellent, in which he has true delight, - that alone is God to him. … Therefore, the feeling, sensitive man believes only in a feeling, sensitive God, … [T]hat alone is holy to man which lies deepest within him, which is … the basis, the essence of his individuality. To the feeling man a God without feeling is an empty, abstract, negative God[.]

T]here is no distinction between the predicates of the divine and human nature, and, consequently, no distinction between the divine and human subject … [T]he predicates are not accidents, but express the essence of the subject … [T]he essence of religion … conceives and affirms a profoundly human relation as divine relations[.]

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.

maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

You ought to be attracted to someone for what they've got inside them, not for the package it's presented in.

I exist," he said softly.

Perhaps he'd always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

Today I bought a small Frosty. This may not seem significant, but the fact is: I'm lactose intolerant. Purchasing a small Frosty, then, is no different than hiring someone to beat me. No different in essence. The only difference, which may or may not be essential, is that, during my torture, I am gazing upon your beautiful employees.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.