Essence Quote by Constantin Brancusi

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,

— Constantin Brancusi

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

— Niels Bohr

Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example,…

— Sean M. Carroll

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for…

— Jane Campion

We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.

— Isha Judd

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— Laren Grey Umphlett

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Most of us are used to thinking that “imaginary” is the opposite of “real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are just making…

— Linda Bender

I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical…

— Andrew Forge

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder