“And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?” IfsLanguageEssenceRelationMetaphorical Book:Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning Source: Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
“Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.” FirstsStatesFormFirst TimeEssenceRelationOriginalsDisplayFestive Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art
“Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.” AtheismBearsEssenceRelationPositive AtheismTheologyFeverMisleadObsoleteScarletTrue ReligionMeasles Author:Luther Burbank
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.” ArtRealSoundSpacePaintingUniqueEssenceEarsRelationMathematicsMajorityWaveLocalsPostsPlanesDryGossipCanvasOur ThoughtsTime And SpaceSequenceSymphonyPigmentArt LifeSound Waves Author:David Mumford
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.” MayIndividualBeliefGivenObjectsPureDegreesEssenceUniversalRelationDefinitionsComplexity Author:George Santayana
“There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.” GodResultsMovementEternalUniquePerfectionEssenceRelationAbsolutesInfiniteBeing UniquePlenitude Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.” FormPoliticalExistenceOur LivesEconomicSubjectsEssenceFunctionRelationIdeologyCrucialPermissionBlindnessProhibitionDensityDeafness Author:Michel Foucault
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.” TryingDreamSeemsGivenExistenceStruggleImpossibleEssenceRelationSurpriseNotionIncrediblesVainSubtleSensationsAbsurdityCapturedRevoltEpochBewildermentHeart Of Darkness Author:Joseph Conrad