Quotes About Essence

What hast thou against the onion? The odor. Nothing more. Otherwise it is like the rose.

reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create.

Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.

No,' she repeated. 'I cannot, Geralt. I cannot tell you that. That bird, begotten from the touch of your hand, will tell you. Bird? What is the essence of truth?' 'Truth,' the kestrel said, 'is a shard of ice.

In che cosa consiste l'autentica virilità se non in una ben proporzionata miscela di classe e follia?

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

as if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance.

For I am not natural, you know - even though, if you cut me, I will bleed.

When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of science depends on the application of highly advanced practical and theoretical reason. A 'science' that is incompatible with such reasoning is therefore at odds with the very essence of scientific activity.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

Less is only more where more is no good.

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

Wherever I've been, I've tried to soak up the essence of the club, the town, and to transmit that to the players.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

I dislike cloyingly sweet desserts - sweet is not a flavor - so I suggest dialing back the sweetness and focusing on what the dessert is about, whether it is a ripe fruit, chocolate, etc.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.