Essence Quotes

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

Never forget the essence of your spark!

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

The essence of cinema is editing.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

All men are alike when asleep.

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.

Style is the essence of man

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of Provence: sunshine.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.