Substance Quotes

• Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.

  

  William Alcott
  • Should
  • Mankind
  • Species

• There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Universe

• Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Shadow
  • Policy

• The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Nothing
  • Become
  • Condition

• What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Substance
  • Opening
  • Penetrate

• Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

  

  William Henry Bragg
  • Fire
  • Movements
  • Whenever

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

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Progress
  • Changed
  • Substance

• A vitamin is a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Sick
  • Eat
  • Vitamin

• By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Action
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

  

  George Smoot
  • Space
  • Substance
  • Galaxies

• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Grief
  • Twenties

• For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Soldier
  • Substance

• We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Show
  • Substance
  • Negotiations

• Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Service

• But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Substance

• 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
  • Body
  • Humans
  • Mystery

• The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Heaven
  • Sun
  • Sky

• And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in their pores then in free spaces, & so much ye rarer as their pores are less ... 3. I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Capable
  • Contraction
  • Dilatation

• It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Certain
  • Substance

• Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

  

  Callimachus
  • Wealth
  • Goodness
  • Worthless

• Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

  

  Karl Polanyi
  • Humans
  • Natural
  • Institutions

• A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Eat
  • Substance
  • Ill

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Heaven
  • Shape
  • Nature Primary

• No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

  

  William of Conches
  • Substance
  • Subtle
  • Swift

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