Quotessence
Home / Topics / Essence Quotes

Essence Quotes

Browse 2761 quotes about Essence.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingHumansMenWayWorldFormKnowsMindSoulMayHeartSelfGivingSpiritArtMeanWantWholeLove IsExistencePersonsRealDoeEssence Of LifeNeedsSpiritualBodyShouldBelieveLyingMatterFeelsIdeasTryingLooksTranscendentalismDivineFirstsIndividualRealityStatesLife IsWellsCharacterDifferentFactsImportantKindLightMomentsTwoHuman BeingsLoveOrderChristianPureUseConsciousnessGovernmentHas BeensLifeProblemStillsWarWritingEndsUniverseFeelingsMightAbleChildrenEyeHelpingLawMadeReasonActionAwarenessForceInspirationalLittlesPracticeShowsStoriesDesireDemocracyUnderstandingYearsCreationPhilosophySeemsSufferingTogetherWould BeCertainCoursesEssentialsGrowsmore

Essence Quotes

“When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.”

NeedsGivingSelfSeemsMightFormIndividualInterestSocietyEssenceLoyaltySurrenderDevotionDesperateDedicationWorth LivingSpoiledClingingProspects
Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Create image

“You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.”

IfsNeedsFeelingsSpiritualPiecesSelf EsteemDivineEssenceSelf ConfidenceEsteemAbundanceUnworthyRemindingBoost Self ConfidenceBoost Self EsteemReminding Yourself
Book:Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
Create image

“This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.”

NeedsHumansFeelingsWantedMotherKnownBrotherMaterialsBrokenArmsConnectionsEssenceFoundationSuicideUnionsAddictionSurrenderIntimacyMy BrotherMysticismSpellsYearningRenewalDeprivedTranscendenceFreezeIntangibleHuman NeedsHelmRomantic Feelings
Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Create image

“The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.”

MenWorldNeedsFeelingsDreamSpiritualWonderConditionsEssenceNotionDawnPhenomenonSuperstitionsSavagesUnrealHereditarySaturatedThoroughness
Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
Create image

“Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.”

PeopleNeedsRealHelpingBigsGovernmentAbleEnergyDifferencesPartyEconomyEnvironmentFocusMediaEssenceDeterminedTeaCorporateCorporationsIronOverwhelmingHelping PeopleOur EnvironmentTea PartyPopulistPopulism
Author:Jim Hightower
Create image

“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)”

ThinkingMenNeedsTryingTwoReasonPlayGoalWealthRolesHairAmbitionEmptyEssenceOneselfRichesPursuitEmptinessLatterMaskScentTrailsLive It Up
Author:African Spir
Create image

“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”

NeedsHumansRealSelfCharacterSchoolSocialModernStudentsTypePersonalityNeededHabitAuthorityEssenceUniversitySexualityObedienceTraitsChillHierarchyTwistedAlienationHuman NeedsCompetitivenessSocial SystemsObjectificationReal HumanPersonality TypesCharacter Trait
Book:Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy
Create image

“Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.”

ThinkingNeedsLooksMeanTwoRealizingSpaceLevelsAwarenessConsciousEssenceHeavyPartnersBeing RealReally MeanDense
Author:Eckhart Tolle
Create image

“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”

MenNeedsEvilPerfectionOptimismEssenceSpeciesSelfishnessContradictionGood And EvilImperfectionAltruismAffirmationBlazingNegationFatalism
Book:Who Speaks for Man?
Create image

“The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.”

IfsNeedsGivingWellsChildrenLittlesMotherParentResultsEffortEmpathyIdealsEssenceRaisesMy ChildrenBehaveUnnoticedGood MotherBeing A Good Mother
Author:Alice Miller
Create image

“The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.”

NeedsWholeProblemTimeSufferingWalkingEssenceWho You AreEdgesAbsenceNo ProblemRazorsTime Of Need
Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Create image

“All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.”

InspirationalNeedsMindArtTodayLastsUniverseLiteratureStrongProcessNumbersTomorrowTruth IsWeakEssenceErrorsFinalsCertaintyFiniteCrutchesDialectics
Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
Create image

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

MenNeedsKindMayChildrenHas BeensLastsUsedCertainLeftSpeakVoicePleasureSilenceQualityLaughingObjectsKeysCircumstancesGayEssenceNotesMoodDustPianoChairsMelancholyEchoesLifelessEmanate
Book:West with the Night
Create image

“Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.”

NeedsSelfWholeTogetherSpiritForceExpressionFlowEssencePermitWithin YouSelf ExpressionBindingRadianceSaturatedEssence Of Life
Book:This Thing Called You
Create image

“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.”

MenWorldWantNeedsMadeTwoImportantPhilosophyDreamIndividualStarsReligiousOpinionLife PhilosophyPersonalityMen And WomenEssenceSacredHungerPatternsNeighborToleranceUniquenessTemperamentDistinctiveSamenessSnowflakeReligious Philosophy
Author:Joshua L. Liebman
Create image

“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.”

IfsNeedsYearsFactsWould BePurposeUniverseCommonSecretObjectsYears AgoEssenceNotionAppearanceCommon SenseLayers
Author:Michio Kaku
Create image

“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.”

MenNeedsHumansHas BeensArtIdeasSoulInfluenceSubjectsCreaturesEssenceEarsImpulseCosmosCosmicOrganismsSoarHuman SoulVibrationsExaltedElementalsSensuousMental PowerTracingSoul Man
Author:Bruno Walter
Create image

“You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.”

NeedsCountryBeautifulFlowerArmsEssenceFruitLegsSpendingTraditionalSubstanceUsaNativeNative AmericanSageAffordableBouquetsCitrus
Author:Horst Rechelbacher
Create image

“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.”

WantNeedsYearsKindPersonsSaidStatesAgePainJoyMotherCertainPresidentUnitedDealsSituationUnited StatesAudienceDoctorsEssenceBarackPresident ObamaKillersAdviseProceduresJoy Of Life
Author:Nat Hentoff
Create image

“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.”

NeedsHumansStoriesLastsFormSpiritMankindDrawsEssenceMarkBreathsCaptureHuman SpiritGood Story
Book:Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel
Create image

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

NeedsFeelsMindMayIdeasFactsFeelingsHandsHappensScienceSimpleNumbersWatchesSubjectsJudgingPagesReflectionEssenceDifficultyBlindMereConvictionAbsenceExperimentsIntimateDescriptionBrutalRemarksPrecisionDeceptiveOscillation
Author:Alfred Binet
Create image

“To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.”

MenNeedsLightSourceMoralityEthicsConscienceAll ThingsEssenceAnd LoveGod LoveHave FaithGodlyFearlessnessTruth And LoveAbove And Beyond
Book:All Men Are Brothers
Create image

“The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.”

IfsNeedsI CanGrowsCan DoConsciousnessConditionsLove YouPureEssenceContactAcknowledgeUnconditional LoveJust BeingUnconditional
Author:Ram Dass
Create image

“When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.”

ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsShouldLooksRealLyingGivenGrowsAbilityLove IsTakenLove YouEssenceStealingDesperateReal LoveFinding LoveLoving Life
Author:Iyanla Vanzant
Create image

“If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”

IfsNeedsWholeUnderstandingViolenceLimitsEssenceDefenseRejectsExceedAnarchismAuthoritarianismPacifism
Book:Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
Create image