Quotes on Essence

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

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Man's existence precedes his essence

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.