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Quotes About Substance

there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...
~ Aldous Huxley
What you need is a gramme of soma." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
~ Aldous Huxley
Fui y seré me ponen triste ...; tomo un gramo (de soma) y sólo soy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.
~ Aldous Huxley
The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.
~ Aldous Huxley
The forms change, but the substance remains.
~ Aldous Huxley
Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both.
~ Aldous Huxley
Let there be a voice to assure them, by day and even while they are asleep, that in spite of all the terror, all the bewilderment and confusion, the ultimate Reality remains unshakably itself and is of the same substance as the inner light of even the most cruelly tormented mind.
~ Aldous Huxley
The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
~ Aldous Huxley
Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.
~ Aldous Huxley
Alcohol is one of the oldest and certainly the most widely used of all consciousness-changing drugs. Unfortunately, it is a rather inefficient and, at the same time, a rather dangerous drug.
~ Aldous Huxley
God who, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally, nevertheless, in efficacy, is in rational creatures in another way than in irrational, and in good rational creatures in another way than in the bad. He is in irrational creatures in such a way as not to be comprehended by them; by all rational ones, however, he can be comprehended through knowledge; but only by the good is he to be comprehended also through love.
~ Aldous Huxley
Una droga así tiene que ser poderosa en muy pequeñas dosis y sintetizable.
~ Aldous Huxley
Don't take that horrible stuff. It's poison, it's poison.
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme is better than a damn.
~ Aldous Huxley
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.
~ Doug Ose
f you're gonna have a pro-drug argument, start the argument where it starts: I have the right to do what ever the hell I want to my own body, if it kills me slowly, happy for me, fuck you, "clack clack" (miming a pump-action shotgun) stop me!
~ Doug Stanhope
Smoke crack and die
~ Dr. Seuss
You know how I play it, better safe than sorry stead of searching for substance at every single party.
~ Drake
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
~ Duane Chapman
All things need some degree of order; of substance, form and structure. Show me a storm or the most beautiful day without form, and I'll show you chaos and dissonance that is not unlike a symphony of wailing scorched cats.
~ Duane Hewitt
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
~ Eddie Vedder
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~ Aesop
I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.
~ Sheek Louch