Quotes About Essence

A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable.

Look at the matter in this way. Since we can see that a dog is fitted by nature to do one thing, and a horse to do another, and a nightingale, if you like, to do yet another, it wouldn't be absurd for one to declare overall that each of them is beautiful precisely in so far as it best fulfils its own nature; and since each is different in nature, it would seem to me that each of them is beautiful in a different way. Isn't that so? The student agreed.

In essence, healing is this: the release or removal of a block or interference that has kept us separate from the perfection of the universe.

They explored the nature of visual representation by reducing images to their essential elements of form, line, color, or light.

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

beauty plus personality equal model while beauty plus personality plus spirituality equals super model

Life is worthwhile in itself

Nichts weiter als eine Legende, sagst du? Du willst nichts weiter als Fakten? Fakten sind vergänglich, glaube mir das, nur die Legende bleibt, so wie die Seele nach dem Körper oder der Duft einer vorbeigegangenen Frau.

Consciousness is the true reality, and matter is an epiphenomenon bordering on trivial.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.

She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, in its original French. It read: "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." What is essential is invisible to the eye.

the essence of prayer is relationship

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

No," answered the Lord. "The remedy would be worse than the disease. It would be the ruin of the priesthood if essence prevailed over form in the laws of salvation." "Alas! Lord," sighed the humble Probus. "Be persuaded by my humble experience; as long as you reduce your sacraments to formulas your justice will meet with terrible obstacles.

It is clear to what an extent this neorealism differs from the formal concept which consists of decking out a formal story with touches of reality. As for the technique, properly so called, Ladri di Biciclette, like a lot of other films, was shot in the street with nonprofessional actors but its true merit lies elsewhere: in not betraying the essence of things, in allowing them first of all to exist for their own sakes, freely; it is in loving them in their singular individuality.

Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism. No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. The fact that a human hand intervened cast a shadow of doubt over the image.

Amamos a aquellas personas que destilan una extraña esencia, que es la que nos falta para tener un compuesto químico equilibrado.

Yo luzco y difumino tus aires, para que pasen a ser esencia trágica de los que ya me conocen, de los que me ven y ya no me olvidan. Para los muertos