Quotes About Essence

As we said at the beginning, the bedrock claim of existentialism holds that existence precedes essence, or we have no essence. Like electrons, we jump from one information system to another, and only those who have not looked closely believe that one essence remains constant through all transformations.

I said, "He wants to matter." "Oh, please." "Josh made a sign for the wall in his apartment. One word. It says 'Matter.' A reminder, I guess, to do something that matters.

Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

Too long I've owed you this apology For the apparently unmeaning sorrow You were afflicted with in those old days. But it was of the essence of the trial You shouldn't understand it at the time.

We love the things we love for what they are

In three words I can sum up everything I've

the essence of life here, Though we choose greatly, still to lack The lasting memory at all clear, That life has for us on the wrack Nothing but what we somehow chose; Thus are we wholly stripped of pride In the pain that has but one close, Bearing it crushed and mystified.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

He was glad that he liked the country undecorated, hard and stripped of its finery. He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

He liked the country undecorated, hard, and stripped of its finery.

Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

And analogies were mostly meaningless—a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy).

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.

But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

My heart is quite the best part of me.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.