Quotes about Essence
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
— Marcus Aurelius
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
— GK Chesterton
I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.
— Jack Kerouac
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What we have to be is what we are.
— Thomas Merton
Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
— Ted Dekker
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
— DH Lawrence
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
— Oswald Chambers
The real things about man are not his body.
— TB Joshua
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
— Jay-Z