Quotes and Sayings About Substance
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You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.
-- A. H. Almaas -
It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.
-- A.M. Jenkins -
The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
-- Aesop -
What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
-- Alan Bennett -
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
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I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
-- Albert HofmannSource : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
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A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
-- Alex Haley -
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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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 -
The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.
-- Allan Bloom -
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.
-- Amber DermontSource : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
-- Andreas Libavius -
The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.
-- Angela Merkel -
There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
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In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.
-- Arvid Carlsson -
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
-- Asa GraySource : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
-- Asger JornSource : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
-- Asvaghosa -
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There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
-- B. B. Warfield -
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
-- Barry Commoner -
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known
-- Ben Harper -
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Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
-- Benny Goodman -
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
-- Bernard de MandevilleSource : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.