Divorced Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

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

Being without cause, purpose without effect, none can fathom the intent of essence.

— Anonymous

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in…

— Haruki Murakami

I want to be defined by my own essence.

— Kathy Bates

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

“What is meaning? Meaning means to know the fragment in relation to the whole; meaning is a relationship of the fragment to the whole.”

— Osho

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

— George Eliot

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

— Paul Tillich

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

— Avicenna

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

— Rajneesh

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

— Marcus Aurelius