Quotes About Essence

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

Modernity ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

A clear and quiet heart-mind allows the deep insight necessary to connect with that true divine essence within us.

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

Log kehtey hain zindagi main yrh zaroori hai, woh zaroori hai. Main tumhen bataon? Zindagi main kuch zaroori nahi hota. Na maal, na aulaad, na rutba, na logon ki muhabbat. Bus aap honey chahiyen or aap ka ALLAH se har pal barhta talluq hona chahiye. -nimrah ahmed -jannat k pattey

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

Matter is the shape, mind is the name. Together they make the world. Pervading and transcending is Reality, pure being/awareness/bliss, your very essence.

Since when does how a thing looks matter more than what it is?

Sitting in the back of a cab, Scott pictures the boy eating cereal in front of the tv late at night - unable to sleep - watching a dog drawn from letters d-o-g talk to a cat drawn from the letters c-a-t. If only real life were that simple, where everyone we met and every place we went was fashioned from the pure essence of its identity. Where you looked at a man and saw the letters f-r-i-e-n-d, and looked at a woman and saw the word w-i-f-e.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus, communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society.

Come back to basics comprises three points. The first point is more

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

La esencia de la enfermedad es tan oscura como la de la vida.

Debe rebasarse necesariamente la corteza para descubrir, tras la apariencia, la verdadera esencia de las cosas. El envoltorio, en definitiva, no cuenta. Un precepto que vale para juzgar no sólo las palabras, sino también las cosas y los hombres.

Her ?eyin özüyle ilgileniyoruz: meyvalar?n yaln?z suyunu içiyoruz.

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Death Is a great Change— Is life's greatest Change. We honor our beloved dead. As we mix their essence with the earth, We remember them, And within us, They live.