536 Quotes About Essence
- Author Aristotle
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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- Author Aristotle
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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.
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- Author Avicenna
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That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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- Author Avicenna
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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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- Author Dante Alighieri
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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
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- Author Geno Auriemma
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The big guys hurt us. And Essence Carson hurt us. They got contributions from the big guys and Essence Carson. And for us it was hard to find people to contribute.
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- Author George Ayittey
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Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
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- Author John Adams
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When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form
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