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Quotes About Essence

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In order to know an object, I must know not its external but all its internal qualities.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always somebody. But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be nobody.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his especial characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be "nobody.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The right fist rested on the pommel of his plain long sword, which, contrary to the fashion of the time, had no name. Cromis, whose lips were thin and bloodless, was more possessed by the essential qualities of things than by their names; concerned with the reality of Reality, rather than with the names men give it.
~ M. John Harrison
ce ne sont pas mes gestes que j'escris, c'est moi, c'est mon essence.
~ Machado de Assis
Cada qual sabe amar a seu modo; o modo pouco importa; o essencial é que saiba amar.
~ Machado de Assis
He's nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
~ madeline L'engel
Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
It's a strange thing to admit, because I didn't want to be drawn in, I was on guard against it, but the essence of salesmen is that on some level, they cannot be resisted.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
~ Malcolm Lowry
Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success.
~ Debasish Mridha
There is no secret ingredient
~ Mr Ping, Po's father
We navigate many paths each day, but how many sooth our souls and nourish our senses? Be aware of where you walk because the path you take can change your very essence.
~ Toni Sorenson
Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life.
~ Mensah Oteh
He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Soul power supersedes mind power.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is living your essence.
~ Sharif Khan
ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable.
~ Tony Dovale
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
~ Pope Francis