Quotes About Essence

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

Time is the substance of which we are made