Things always work according to their nature.
When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.
A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow To the wide waters, touch to corporal things, Intangibility to the viewless void.
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
In everything finite there are accidental elements.
The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
I would say that my idea of style and my taste are the same as when I began: They express my deep appreciation of all that is simple and linear... I always want to keep up with the times but without altering the essential characteristics of my philosophy.
