Quotes About Quantity

incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

I own over four ties.

For he by geometric scale,Could take the size of pots of ale.

The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

For to define the infinite you must use quantity in your formula, but not substance or quality. If then Being is both substance and quantity, it is two, not one: if only substance, it is not infinite and has no magnitude; for to have that it will have to be a quantity. Again, (5) 'one' itself, no less than 'being', is used in many senses, so we must consider in what sense the word is used when it is said that the All is one.

En todo Estado es preciso distinguir dos cosas: la cantidad y la calidad de los ciudadanos. Por calidad entiendo la libertad, la riqueza, las luces, el nacimiento; por cantidad entiendo la preponderancia numérica. La calidad puede estar en una parte de los elementos políticos, y la cantidad encontrarse en otra; y así las gentes de nacimiento oscuro

We have decided to consider pleasure and 'pain' in relation to the quantity of excitation present in the psychic life—and not confined in any way—along such lines that 'pain' corresponds with an increase and pleasure with a decrease in this quantity.

Truth lights up the soul in proportion to its purity, not in any sense to its quantity. It isn't the quantity of metal which matters, but the degree of alloy. In this respect, a little pure gold is worth a lot of pure gold. A little pure truth is worth as much as a lot of pure truth. Similarly, one perfect Greek statue contains as much beauty as two perfect Greek statues.

Monotonie du mal : rien de nouveau, tout y est équivalent. Rien de réel, tout y est imaginaire. C'est à cause de cette monotonie que la quantité joue un si grand rôle. Beaucoup de femmes (don Juan) ou d'hommes (Célimène), etc. Condamné à la fausse infinité. C'est là l'enfer même.

It is from the well of St. Dunstan' said he, 'In which betwixt sun and sun, he baptised five hundred heathen Danes and Britons - blessed be his name!' And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant.

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

Quality of life is more important than the quantity

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

In an analog machine each number is represented by a suitable physical quantity, whose values, measured in some pre-assigned unit, is equal to the number in question.

The benefit you derive from your food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.-- R.

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality.

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

C'est en identifiant réalité et quantité que l'esprit humain s'est fait connaissance. Mais il convient de ne pas oublier que la connaissance scientifique, en invalidant des qualités qu'elle fait apparaître illusoires, ne les annule pas pour autant. La quantité c'est la qualité niée, mais non la qualité supprimée.