Substance Quotes - Page 10

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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.

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.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.