It spoke of a game with certain deep essences that it wished to preserve and argued that technology threatened them.
I suspect that what all these writers revered in Cézanne was, first, the intensity with which he looked at the world, seeking to penetrate its deep essences while at the same time giving the most acute account of its visible surface layers.
As Freud wrote, "The deepest essence of human nature consists of self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain".
Although St. Aubin de Teran's marriage is the framing device, her book's deeper essence is found in the brilliant panorama of its chosen time and place.
Devoid of cynicism or gratuitous judgment, he never failed to grasp the deeper essence of what one was trying to do.
Interestingly, this is also the root of "person" and "personality". The derivation implies that one is identified by means of a public face distinct from some deeper essence or essences.
Here I am, failing, and yet still I feel as though this job were, somehow, my deepest essence, who I really — " "Why do you talk like that?" I interrupted.
I wasn't indexing myself against the people around me". Andreessen reminded me — in his formidable achievements and manner, his thickly armored sensitivities and yearnings — of Rilke's remark "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love".
Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination.
