Essence Quote by Avicenna Download Open image “In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.” — Avicenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essence Existence God Life
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought....… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances:… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced,… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness.… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.” — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
