Quotes about essence
essence boredom novelty
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. George Leonard
essence unions welfare
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
essence moments modern
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
essence substance spirit
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
essence tragedy dramatic
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. Garrett Hardin
essence exclusion materialism
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
essence confusion absence
In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth. Reggie Watts
essence divine
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am. Tom Shadyac
essence essence-of-life conflict
Conflict is the very essence of life. Mary Roberts Rinehart
essence firsts states
Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open. Martin Heidegger
essence mind acting
The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium. Minnie Maddern Fiske
essence attention firsts
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence. Minor White
essence spirit formal
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? Pearl S. Buck
essence riches proportion
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. John Wesley
essence sides apostasy
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. John Stott
essence people consciousness
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism John Searle
essence people done
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on. John Perry
essence evil broken
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy. John Piper
essence religion atheism
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart. Mark Thomas
essence world sacred
The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred. Eckhart Tolle
essence
Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.
essence matter findings
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.
essence silence dimensions
Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.
essence form
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
essence foundation needs
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.
essence soul eternity
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create. Hermann Hesse
essence painting form
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence. Henri Matisse
essence feelings dependence
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
essence answers subtle
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. Louis Pasteur
essence answers natural
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
essence play feelings
The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not. John Cleese
essence sobriety moderation
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking. Mahatma Gandhi
essence religion way
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.