Substance Quotes

• I didn't expect that, to be honest. I just thought the show was funny. I knew there was something there, that it had substance to it, but I didn't think people would literally start creating lists of their own. It's pretty fantastic that people laugh because of the show, but at the same time, they're genuinely considering things that 30-minute sitcoms don't usually make you think about. I'm proud of that.

  

  Jason Lee
  • People
  • Funny
  • Proud

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Hopeful

• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Emotional

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Progress
  • Changed
  • Substance

• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Psychedelic
  • Substance
  • History Mankind

• 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

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

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Show
  • Substance
  • Negotiations

• For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

  

  Carl Pfeiffer
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Achieve

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Psychology

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William of Conches
  • Substance
  • Subtle
  • Swift

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Sick
  • Eat
  • Vitamin

• 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

• The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.

  

  Wallace Olins, CBE
  • Helping
  • Symbols
  • Requirements

• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Grief
  • Twenties

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