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Quotes About Matter

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny
Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny
Paradójicamente, a partir de que el hombre adjudicó a la materia el papel que le correspondía a la Conciencia como origen de todas las cosas, perdió la posibilidad de explicar su propia existencia, cuando su motivación era precisamente entenderla.
~ Jacobo Grinberg
Man's mind is nothing more than "Grey Matter." Yet to the greatest scientist, it is the most complex challenge in the world of science ."
~ Unknown
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
~ Lynda Barry
Experiencing life change is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice, choosing God's ways instead of your own.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Jung didn't believe in accidents. He proposed that resonance happens because we are functioning on more that our conscious level... (T)here is a force we don't see but it toes matter, energy and consciousness together.
~ M.J. Rose
I know now what the Grail is. It is the desire of the generations mingling like water with the Blood of Christ, and caught in a fragment of Substance that is beyond Matter! It is a little nucleus of Eternity, dropped somehow from the outer spaces upon one particular spot!
~ John Cowper Powys
This picture of matter curving space and curvaceous space dictating how matter and light will move has several striking features. It brings the non-Euclidean geometries that we talked about in the last chapter out from the library of pure mathematics into the arena of science. The vast collection of geometries describing spaces that are not simply the flat space of Euclid are the ones that Einstein used to capture the possible structures of space distorted by the presence of mass and energy.
~ John D. Barrow
The presence of the particles of matter , and their motion, determine the local topography of the space in which they sit.
~ John D. Barrow
Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.
~ John Fowles
Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.
~ John Fowles
Whereas things exist, are in space and time and have properties such as hardness, colour, etc.
~ John Heaton
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT—IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT—IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT." "What
~ John Irving
BELIEF IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL MATTER," he complained. "IF HE'S GOT SO MUCH DOUBT, HE'S IN THE WRONG BUSINESS.
~ John Irving
Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
~ John of Damascus
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
~ Clement Greenberg
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
~ Jim Dine
Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not
~ Fraser Young
You should recognize that man's soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, may be compared to matter, and that the power of reasoning is its completed form. As long as the soul lies dormant and does not acquire its form from knowledge, then the nature of the soul is useless and exists in vain.
~ Maimonides
After Bacchus gazed into the mirror and followed his own reflection into matter, the rational soul of the world was broken up and distributed by the Titans throughout the mundane sphere of which it is the essential nature, but the heart, or source, of it they could not: scatter.
~ Unknown
I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.
~ Marcel Proust
rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse (in longer works especially) but the invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter ...
~ John Milton