The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness.

Garey Gordon

Tags: essence identity-love purity-of-heart



Go to quote


Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Galileo Galilei

Tags: science things essence names attributes



Go to quote


In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.

Garey Gordon

Tags: love faith character essence



Go to quote


If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Tags: inspirational truth atheism human-nature intention essence irreligious atheistic



Go to quote


(...) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.

Sophocles

Tags: essence king appearance



Go to quote


We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

Susan Sontag

Tags: success greatness equality democracy ambition jealousy ideals heroes essence glory achievement perfection mediocrity intimidation inferiority pettiness egalitarianism overachievers



Go to quote


...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

John Geddes

Tags: think essence feelings



Go to quote


For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C.S. Lewis

Tags: prayer essence request granted



Go to quote


What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Tags: existence humanity mankind self-awareness essence awareness classic-quotes self-definition



Go to quote


My soul absorbs you, my mind inhales your essence, you confirm my life.

Al Cash

Tags: soul essence inhale confirm



Go to quote


« first previous
Page 4 of 7.
next last »

©gutesprueche.com

Data privacy

Imprint
Contact
Wir benutzen Cookies

Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.

OK Ich lehne Cookies ab