Quotes About Essence

A whole time can reduce down to a single taste, a moment. A whole person down to the skelf of a self

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

And maybe you can't know me now. Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for.

I am the being within you, outside time and unhaunted.

Don't think of yourself as a rare sacrifice, blood has no beauty

I would kill you if I cared to. Understand how dangerous I am. I could make you die again; I am the being who is the essence of repetition.

I have no interest in being myself, I just am.

Dus jij kunt me de essentie van het leven uitleggen? Daar krijgen we volgend semester examen over, geloof ik. - Claire

Air you breathe holds the breath of all things.

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.

The essence of philosophy is the abandonment of all authority in favor of individual human reason.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

The beauty of nature is not to be conquered, but to be cherished; for it is a fragile gift that sustains us all. Let us be mindful stewards of the Earth, let us be vigilant guardians of nature, let us be the conductors of environmental conservation and the architects of her restoration; for the preservation of nature is the preservation of our very essence.

Truly, it is what we love that gives us our names.

Love and fear. Love and fear is all there is—everything else is just an offshoot, motivated by those two.

Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.