Best essence & creatures Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.”

“God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.”

Knows Men Wanted Certain Simple Animal Judging Creatures Goodness Perfection Essence Infinite Embrace Creator

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.”

Ifs Life Long Able Wanted Creatures Fairs Essence Series Long Life Crushed Lilies Not Fair Pads Resourceful Nimble Hopping Lily Pads

Book:The Winner

Source: The Winner

“God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.”

Humans May God Shows Seems Law Hurt Movement Divine Strange Creatures Perfection Essence Obedience Attributes Uprightness

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.”

People Firsts Ideas Helping Remember Creatures Essence Meetings Helping Others Visuals Capture

Author:Tom Wujec

“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.”

Law Energy Nature Health Creatures Essence Sickness Sensations Animation Equilibrium Methodical

Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

Way Real Self Enough God Body Seems Science Knowledge Clear Duty Creatures Discovery Essence Obvious Rational Internals Faculty Penetrate Adapted

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Courses Prayer Wise Creatures Essence Refuse Foolish Granted Grants Finite Compulsion Request

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.”

Men Way Persons Loses Pleasure Quality Creatures Essentials Essence Absolutes Aim Domination Another Way Quality Of Life Sadistic Sadism

Book:The Heart of Man

Source: The Heart of Man

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.”

Men Believe I Believe Enemy Creatures My Friends Essence I Believe In Siddhartha Atman

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.”

Humans Past Causes Change Loses Regret Creatures Essence Complaining Life Changing Discomfort Essence Of Life

Author:Anatole France

“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

Men Universe Accepting He Man Civilization Creatures Yoga Essence Unity Sat Meditating Kinship

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

Matter Turns Modern Creation Birth Creatures Destruction Essence Seasons Physics Rhythm Manifest Physicist Living Creatures Birth And Death Shiva Modern Physics Creation And Destruction

Author:Fritjof Capra

“The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.”

Men Beautiful Creation Creatures Essence Praise Unions Creator Paradise Dedicated Hymns Alphas

Book:The Mystery of the Golden Blossom: The Magic of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Love

Source: The Mystery of the Golden Blossom: The Magic of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Love

“Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.”

Love Humans Stills Happens Form Spirit Certain Human Beings Attention Consciousness Awareness Divine Creatures Degrees Perception Essence Psychological Divine Life

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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