Quotes on Essence

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Why aren't there films being made that tell ethnically diverse stories? Or why is it so impossible to allow a person of color to add their texture and their essence to a role that is not ethnically specific? I don't know why it's a novel or risky idea to consider making a film look like how our world actually looks today.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

Existence is prior to essence.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.