Quotes about Essence
The essence of Ciceronian philosophy is a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of human beings to one another and to the universe that encompasses them.
- Cicero
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Margaret Atwood
If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.
- Margaret Atwood
We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.
- Margaret Atwood
The living bird is not its labeled bones.
- Margaret Atwood
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
- John Keats
It is not simply that God "loves," but that He is Love itself.
- AW Pink
But in that curious compound, the feminine character, it may easily happen that the flavor is unpleasant in spite of excellent ingredients;
- George Eliot
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
- Walt Whitman