Quotes About Essence

Non multa sed multum [Not many but much].

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

You are born of spirit. You cannot become more spiritual. Set your inner spiritual being free.

[Graham Greenes] ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter (1948); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones and usually you will find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

The Republic is nothing," he said crossly, "a mere name without form or substance.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

It meant nothing to me. You can stick a piece of metal on a coward and a liar but it won't change what he is.

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha!

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.