Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George SantayanaBy "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.
George SantayanaWe crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
George Santayana