Quotes about Essence

Life minus love equals zero.

God is not one more intelligible object among many, not a supreme existing thing among other existing things, not simply the highest value alongside other ethical goods. Rather, God is that which is intelligible in itself, that which exists through the power of its own essence, that which is good by its very nature.

Surely the flowers of a hundred spring are simply the souls of beautiful things!

Surely the flowers of a hundred springs are simply the souls of beautiful things!

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

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

To the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.