Substance Quotes - Page 4

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

The substance of painting is light.

A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

Number was the substance of all things.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

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.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely.