Quotes About Essence

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

The aim of living is life itself.

She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus.

But I don't think people change at the core.

But I don't think people change at the core. They are who they are.

My mother told me once that each thing, each being, has two names. One is the name by which it is known in this world and the other is a secret name that it keeps hidden. But if you call it by this name it cannot help but respond. This is the name by which the creature was known in the Garden of Eden.

A poem should not mean/ but be.

One of the most damning indictments of mankind is found in Isaiah 53:6: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way" (Niv). Going our own way is the very essence, the very core, of sin. Your way may be to give money to charity; another person's way may be to rob a bank. But neither is done with reference to God; both of you have gone your own way.

Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?" "The American Revolution?" "A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve tables of the law and put them where everyone could see them -- thereby proclaimed the law supreme over the politicians. The rule of law is the essence of freedom.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

It's funny how it only takes one thing to ruin your essence. One thing to burn the light out of your soul and dim the spark of life within you.

God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow," that love and labor are inseparable. One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.

Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.

The person and the name become equivalent; the name demonstrates that the person is a lasting, indestructible substance—and not a process.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

T]his is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this. They understand of course, they agree, they may even feel it so too, but only with words, only with words, yes that is it - they feel it, but always with only half of themselves, the rest of their being taken up by with other things, they are so divided in themselves that none feels it with his whole essence;

Nachts ist man das, was man eigentlich sein soll; nicht das, was man geworden ist.

The essence of war is violence," he wrote, "and moderation in war is imbecility.

The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy

It is impossible to get blood from a stone, to get spirituality from a physical being.

For ages, when philosophers talked about the core of man they referred to it as his essence, something fixed in his nature, deep down, some special quality or substance. But nothing like it was ever found; man's peculiarity still remained a dilemma. The reason it was never found, as Erich Fromm put it in an excellent discussion, was that there was no essence, that the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Not the why but the what.

Os nomes penetram-nos até aos ossos.