Quotes About Essence

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very essence of slavery.

Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.

It is better to die what you are than to live a stranger forever

It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.

But I'm pretty on the inside.

He who wants to recognize what is alive and describe it, seeks first to drive the spirit out of it. Then, he holds the parts in his hands. But missing is the spirit's band.

All comes at last to feeling; Name is but sound and smoke, Beclouding Heaven's warm glow.

Denn alles muß in Nichts zerfallen, wenn es im Sein beharren will.

Eres, al fin y al cabo, lo que eres. Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

Tis feeling all; Name is but sound and smoke Shrouding the glow of heaven.

Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

Das Leben eines Menschen ist sein Charakter

The pure-bred mare is not shamed by its trappings. p56

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

While freedom can be a state of nature, liberty requires a degree of self-discipline. It is the essence of self-governance.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Wi?cej za pomoc? mniej.

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power. It

The essence of God is rather to be adored than inquired into.

And surely since we have already seen how the apostles declare the Son of God to have been He whom Moses and the prophets declared to be Jehovah, we must always arrive at a unity of essence.

literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence. But it supplies the materials for thought. Also, because it is the only art capable of criticism, it encourages questioning, and self-questioning.

For we not only discover God by admiring His incomprehensible essence, a thing which still lies hid in the hope of the promise, but we see Him through the greatness of His creation, and the consideration of His justice, and the aid of His daily providence: