Top Substance Quotes Collection

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Image of Tim O'Brien
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
- Tim O'Brien
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Image of Wilson Mizner
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
- Wilson Mizner
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Image of Wallace D. Wattles
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
- Wallace D. Wattles
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Image of Norman O. Brown
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
- Norman O. Brown
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Image of Hermann Weyl
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.
- Hermann Weyl
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Image of James Clerk Maxwell
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
- James Clerk Maxwell
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Image of Torbern Bergman
The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions.
- Torbern Bergman
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Image of John Thorne
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.
- John Thorne
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Image of Chow Yun-Fat
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
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Image of Daniel Odier
The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.
- Daniel Odier
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Image of Ralph Caplan
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.
- Ralph Caplan
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Image of Andreas Libavius
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
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Image of Diane Wakoski
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
- Diane Wakoski
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Image of L. Whitney Clayton
Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.
- L. Whitney Clayton
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Image of Albert Hofmann
Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.
- Albert Hofmann
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Image of Clarence Manion
Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.
- Clarence Manion
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Image of Nils Parker
FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.
- Nils Parker
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Image of Craig L. Rice
our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.
- Craig L. Rice
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Image of Marlene van Niekerk
In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.
- Marlene van Niekerk
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Image of George Berkeley
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
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Charles Stanley
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
- Charles Stanley
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Image of Nikola Tesla
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
- Nikola Tesla
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Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
- Robert M. Pirsig
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Image of George Santayana
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
- George Santayana
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Image of Jodi Picoult
Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
- Jodi Picoult
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Image of Peter Thiel
Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.
- Peter Thiel
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Image of Giordano Bruno
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
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Image of Dee Hock
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
- Dee Hock
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Image of Thomas Aquinas
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
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
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Image of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
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
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Image of Saint Augustine
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Nhat Hanh
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
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
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
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Image of Jack Kerouac
There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
- Jack Kerouac
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Image of Johannes Kepler
Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.
- Johannes Kepler
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Image of Rudyard Kipling
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Image of Allen W. Wood
Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.
- Allen W. Wood
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Image of Dave Barry
Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.
- Dave Barry
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Image of Dave Barry
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
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Image of Angela Merkel
The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.
- Angela Merkel
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Image of Karl Marx
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
- Karl Marx
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Image of Terence McKenna
[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
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Image of Karl Marx
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
- Karl Marx
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