Sentence examples for has no essence from inspiring English sources

God has no essence distinct from his existence; he is pure existence.

It has no essence, no meaning, just like life, pure and simple.

If death has no essence and resists definition, what is the upshot?

One defines and knows things through their essences but existence has no essence that is singular across its different referents and manifestations.

After all, if law is inevitably shaped by ideas emanating from power relations outside of the law, then it would seem that law has no essence, be it moral or institutional.

He may mean that he believes, as mentioned above, that Judaism has no essence but is only a series of connected yet not always coherent textual traditions and sets of ideas.

Because evolution is a gradual process where species are constantly undergoing change, Aristotelian (essentialist) definitions of species need to be abandoned; from an evolutionary perspective, in David Hull's (1994) words: "The essence of a particular species is to have no essence" (p. 215).

Defined by his creator as "a mere device . . . a whispering 'daemon,' " Marlow is more specifically a vehicle for exploring the perspectival nature of human affairs — the idea that, for example, the Indian Ocean has no stable essence or identity beyond the excitement it inspires in one excitable twenty-year-old sailor.

This is actually his character: a character without one character, polycharacter, character of metamorph, one that has no form, essence or structure, and can assume any form from his indeterminate "self".

If all beings have "no-self" or abiding essence, if all things are characterized by emptiness (śūnyatā) or the absence of any intrinsic nature basic teachings of both early and later Buddhist traditions and if we have been living the ignorance-biased lives of "sinners" rather than "saints", how is liberation ever possible?

Even the simplest technology has no singular, stable essence, but can be taken up for different purposes or 'stabilities' in different contexts.