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Quotes About Matter

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.
~ Robert Jastrow
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
~ Terence McKenna
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
~ Franz Kafka
Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.
~ Alexander Lowen
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.
~ Dion Fortune
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.
~ Hubert Yockey
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
~ Henri Bergson
Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.
~ Jim Berg
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
~ Jim Hightower
Golf is not as much fun without a scorecard. Tennis doesn't work as well without it. Same for other sports. Somehow, though, we muddle through life without a scorecard, one that's focused on character strengths, even though most people, if they reflected on it, would agree that in the game of life, these are what truly matter most.
~ Jim Loehr
I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.
~ Joan D. Vinge
And in this matter, Gold, he'd said, rolling his eyes towards Frank, we have had an early advantage.
~ Joan London
This is the essence of emergence: tiny units of matter operating collectively to become something much more than themselves, to enable the cosmos to know itself.
~ Ann Druyan
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
~ Anne Carson
He picked his way carefully toward the sex question. Why is it a question? He understood that people need acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts?
~ Anne Carson
looking at man in upside-down fashion, it [56] has been possible for us to ask whether he has a Spirit, whether he survives death, whereas really the question that we might very well ask is: "Why has this immortal Bird of Heaven plunged down into the ocean of matter, into mortal life?" Thus
~ Annie Besant
Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.
~ Anodea Judith
Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Anonymous
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
~ Matthew Barney
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.
~ Janet Reno
When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved to at least begin taking preliminary precautions in case the correlation proves to be causative.
~ David Brin