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Quotes About Matter

My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory—hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
~ Alan Davies
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
~ Marc Maron
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
~ Charles Dickens
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
~ Ray Bradbury
The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
~ Dalai Lama
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.
~ Marilyn Manson
I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you dare point a gun at your own brother!
~ Kazue Kato
In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.
~ Laura Busche, Lean Branding
There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.
~ JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
If he believed he was doing the right thing, other people's opinions didn't matter.
~ Jan Greenberg
Each human is a heterogeneous compound of vibrant matter. If matter itself is lively, then not only is the difference between subjects and objects minimized, but the status of the shared materiality of all things is elevated. (...) And in a knotted world of vibrant matter, to harm one section of the web may very well be to harm oneself. Such an enlightened or expanded notion of self-interest is good for humans.
~ Jane Bennett
why must I exclude exclude, if everything is now and mind is matter is not everything valid is not meditation the substance of the mind as well as its practice?
~ E.L. Doctorow
In the end It will not matter That I was a woman. I am sure of it. The body is a source. Nothing more. There is a time for it. There is a certainty About the way it seeks its own dissolution.
~ Eavan Boland
As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need any other reason for joining in when one is afoot. So
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter
~ Edmund Morris
Despite all their rooftop antics, the only proposition they really had to offer was that luck multiplied by time transubstantiated matter.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
~ Albert Einstein
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
~ Albert Pike
This agent, partially revealed by the blind guesses of the disciples of Mesmer, is precisely what the Adepts of the middle ages called the elementary matter of the great work. The Gnostics held that it composed the igneous body of the Holy Spirit; and it was adored in the secret rites of the Sabbat or the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of Baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of Mendes.
~ Albert Pike
The dreamtime infuses all matter and energy, connecting every creature, every rock, every star, and every ray of light or bit of cosmic dust. The power to dream, then, is the power to participate in creation itself. Dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one all humans must perform with grace so that our grandchildren will inherit a world where they can live in peace and abundance.
~ Alberto Villoldo