Essences Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of…
— Robert Adams
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
— William Shenstone
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It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more…
— Chaka Khan
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Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging…
— Richard Corliss
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which…
— Morris Graves
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It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained…
— Marion Woodman
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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all…
— Pavel Florensky
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Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and…
— Etienne Gilson
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The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.
— Jo Ann Emerson
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
— George Benson
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We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
— Wayne Thiebaud
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a…
— Jennifer Grant
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The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of…
— James D. Watson
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There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the…
— Romain Rolland
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for…
— Marcel Proust
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Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our…
— Herman Melville
Who Wrote These Essences Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Essences Quotes as follows: