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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. -- William Shenstone
A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences. -- Rumi
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting. -- George Benson
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting. -- George Benson
The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life. -- Jo Ann Emerson
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. -- William Shenstone
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky. -- Henry David Thoreau
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism. -- Nat Hentoff
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy. -- Hart Crane
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 money dead than alive. -- Chaka Khan
Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. -- R.W. Southern
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who's bigger, who's smarter, who's best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame. -- Willis Regier
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 of essences and are coextensive with Being. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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 of essences and are coextensive with Being." -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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 surface than the skin around a soul? -- Richard Corliss
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up. -- Albert Camus
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 essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. -- Herman Melville

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