Quotes About Essence

He came, not so much as to declare a message, but rather that there might be a message to proclaim. He Himself was and is the message, not His teachings, but He Himself constituted Christianity.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Consider what the word "augmentation" means. The idea is that you augment something already existing. Many who do it destroy that essential something in the process – become more their additions than themselves. It is part of the haiman ethos to retain that humanity until such a time as it becomes possible to truly extend self. They call themselves haimans but know that until that becomes possible they are not truly post-human.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

mojo (moyo, a Kikongo word meaning something like "soul force").

Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoría de los grandes triunfos y grandes catástrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas.

It is said that pearls, being organic, become imbued with the essence of their wearer, and thus are the most personal of jewels

Exactly." Rabbi Hillel, one of the early Jewish sages, had been challenged to state the essence of Judaism while standing on one foot. He had said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Armies, like human beings, are not capable of what is not in them.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha. ritinha

Maybe that was why Anna admired people with passion. A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and she was nagged with the sense of a loss she could not remember.

YO SOY" representa la esencia de nuestra identidad y la relación intrínseca con la divinidad. Es la afirmación más pura y fundamental de nuestra existencia y la conexión con todo lo que es. Es el reconocimiento de nosotros mismos como una parte integral de la divinidad.

It is rather that I believe in the reality of what's being named more than in the name itself.

Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Memory, for Seneca as for Erasmus, was as much a crucible as a container. It was more than the sum of things remembered. It was something newly made, the essence of a unique self.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

In order to be what it 'is', a text is an essentially vitiated, impure, open, haunted thing, consisting of traces and traces of traces: no text is purely present, nor was there some purely present text in the past.

that those who are no longer with us remain with us specifically through our memories of them. That memories are perhaps more than just recordings, that they are the actual essence of the people we have known, the places we have been, lingering on long after the event, like time travellers, like ghosts.

For a cat is just a cat, and cannot change its nature.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

The flesh is nearly burnt from your bones and the human from your heart. You're nothing but wyrd and ælf breath. Spend less time in the wind.

Wir sollten uns nur den Dingen widmen, die bei einem Zusammenbruch unversehrt bleiben würden.