Quotes about substance
substance degradation recycling
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Barry Commoner
substance source concerned
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. Diane Wakoski
substance obsessed fats
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content. Dave Barry
substance literature lilies
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton
substance matter cabinets
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Alfred North Whitehead
substance belief behavior
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. Charles Stanley
substance english-words culture
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me Chow Yun-Fat
substance words
They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.
substance care way
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do? Nhat Hanh
substance half states
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived. John Thorne
substance fool too-late
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. Plautus
substance matter primaries
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether Nikola Tesla
substance divine universal
There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be? Jack Kerouac
substance should deny
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it. George Berkeley
substance said changed
Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die . Giordano Bruno
substance elements principles
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo , nor reducible ad nihilum , but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
substance spirituality fountain
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
substance answers mouths
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. Ivan Pavlov
substance wealth form
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. Karl Marx
substance essentials behavior
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt. Kay Redfield Jamison
substance television-news literature
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. Jessica Savitch
substance weapons prejudice
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. Jacques Barzun
substance nouns body
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? Gaston Bachelard
substance causes opinion
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. George Santayana
substance public-opinion culture
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Friedrich Nietzsche
substance mathematics mathematical
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. Hermann Weyl
substance way hinduism
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. Mahatma Gandhi
substance body self-destruction
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation. Norman O. Brown
substance matter individual
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. Thomas Aquinas
substance body mystery
[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body. Terence McKenna
substance gimlets individual
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . Marcus Aurelius
substance
As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. Sean William Scott
substance instant loses
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. Nathaniel Hawthorne