Quotes about Essence
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
— Henry Ford
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
— John Milton
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
— Aristotle
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit
— Carl Jung
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
— Alexander Hamilton
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
— Martin Luther
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.
— Jon Gordon
A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
— Matshona Dhliwayo