Home / Topics / Essence Quotes

Essence Quotes

Browse 2761 quotes about Essence.

Essence Quotes

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

Life Mind Energy Meditation Positive Inspirational Life Essence Philosophical Buddhist Life Lesson Positive Energy Essence Of Life Creative Energy Negative Energy Energy Fields Energy Of Life Energy And Life

Author:Aristotle

“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”

Trying Kind Reason Used Speak Wind Essence Philosophical Western Devices Establishment Popularity Sail Marxism Speaks Out Marxist Caricatures Determinism Reductionism

Book:Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

“True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.”

World Stories Literature Levels Moral Emotional Reader Essence Philosophical

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”

Knows Awareness Genius Essence Philosophical Creative Genius

Author:William James

“Existence precedes and rules essence.”

Existence Essence Philosophical

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.”

Book Found Sound President Fire Thousand Essence Bases Philosophical Drinking Casts Flames Heat Prophet Nonsense Tunes Symphony Assassins Interpreter Dens Anton Gorodetsky

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.”

Ifs Thinking Destruction Essence Philosophical Immoral

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

“You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

Able Order Products Essentials Essence Philosophical

Author:Jonathan Ive

“I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).”

Ideas Philosophy Tasks Essence Philosophical Method Philosopher Passing Passings Welcome Defined Analysis Grasping

Author:Robert Adams

“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”