Substance Quotes - Page 17

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

The body is the substance of the stone.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

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.