Quotes About Substance

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.

For example, whereas the natural sciences are concerned with various specific kinds of material substances Ã¢â'¬â€œ stone, water, trees, fish, stars, and so on Ã¢â'¬â€œ metaphysics is concerned with questions such as what it is to be a substance of any kind in the first place. (Is a substance a mere bundle of attributes, or a substratum in which attributes inhere? Are material substances the only possible sort? And so on.) Similarly, the natural sciences are concerned with

Third, the intellect abstracts from even the quantitative features and considers only the most general ways in which a thing might be characterized Ã¢â'¬â€œ in terms of notions such as that of substance, attribute, essence, existence, etc.

When someone is alcoholic, is abusing cocaine, or is dependent upon marijuana, we often become so preoccupied with the problems the drug use creates that we fail to consider what purpose the drug must be serving for the user.

If you tasked a cultural engineering team with designing a substance that would satisfy specs aimed at maximizing individual creativity and group cooperation, they would come up with something very much like alcohol.

The study is just knowledge of theory; whereas, practice shows its substance and reality.

Kiki don't get too hung up on appearances, it's your heart that's important

I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.

They were addicts, and addicts of any kind were very reliable customers.

Anything that name ends with XIN is likely to contain TOXIN-a harmful substance for anybody.

We have shown that the substance and object of religion is altogether human; we have shown that divine wisdom is human wisdom; that the secret of theology is anthropology; that the absolute mind is the so-called finite subjective mind.

One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do, and that are not into the showbiz.

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.