Quotes about Essence

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The body without the spirit is a corpse; the spirit without the body is a ghost.

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'

Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

The river never changes. it may alter it's path a bit, but it never changes. It's us who change. We come back here and we're are different. Not it. Form can't be extracted from the essence like some broth reduction. This river's taught me a good bit. Probably why I don't leave here. It winds, weaves, snakes around. Rarely goes the same twice. But, in the end, it always ends up in the same place and the gift is never the same. ...it's the journey that matters.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Heidegger says that "the fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there anything at all rather than nothing?" The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, "what" a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God.