Quotes About Matter

Central to my analysis is the agential realist understanding of matter as a dynamic and shifting entanglement of relations, rather than as a property of things.

She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as ballon, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

Once, he'd dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.