fundamental essence Quotes

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely essential to tell the story, it would be butchery. The end result would horrify you. Essential is the bones of the story, but the soul lives somewhere else.

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.