Quotes About Substance

CreaÈ›ia È™i distrugerea sunt direcÈ›ii diferite ale aceleiaÈ™i substanÈ›e ce se afirm? destr?mându-se.

La sola risposta al nulla sta nell'illusione. E' quasi un fatto biologico. È la nostra sostanza stessa. Non è illusione, è qualcosa di più. Ma ciò vuole anche dire che il pericolo della vita consiste nell'esagerare col rigore, nello spingersi troppo oltre. Questione di temperamento. Un'altra cosa spiacevole nella vita è l'astio. L'astioso è un incattivito che si attribuisce una sorta di superiorità.

According to Meister Eckhart, divinity precedes God, being His essence, his unfathomable depth. What should we find at man's inmost core which defines his substance in opposition to the divine essence? Neurasthenia – which is to man what divinity is to God.

Expression diminishes you, impoverishes you, lifts weights off you: expression is loss of substance, and liberation.

De ceux qui ne diffusent pas autour d'eux un relent d'échec, on peut difficilement dire qu'ils ont vécu. La décomposition est la seule trace que laisse la marche de la vie, cet étrange pourrissement de la matière. Création et destruction sont les différentes directions d'une même substance qui s'affirme en s'effilochant.

When Jesus said, `I am the door,' He meant that the I AM in each soul is the door through which the life, power, and substance of the great I AM, which is God, comes forth into expression through the individual. This I AM has but one mode of expression and that is through idea, thought, word, and act.

What life is cannot be photographed or weighed for it is not a substance but an action, and what it does is a better way to know life than to classify its materials. It will do with a marshmallow, for example, about what the campfire on a moonlit night will do.

He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate.

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith.

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Reason is dependent on faith, and faith is helpless without reason. A belief of some sort underlies every system of thought. If we bore as deep as we can through systems, the deepest thing we reach is an undemonstrable thesis, which is accepted and believed in as a verity. It is the primary substance which is unaffected by the most corrosive acid so long as it remains uncombined.

It is undoubtedly true that there is no spirit without substance, no substance without spirit, latent or expressed; but a painting of a man may seem at a distance to be a man.

En la Sustancia (en Dios), esencia, existencia y potencia productiva quedan estrictamente identificadas, de manera que la Sustancia (Dios), lejos de crear todo lo que es, lo produce en y desde sí misma:

Depressed? No one in the world but a doper could know the true opposite of depressed.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

Some movies are entirely too heavy, and some movies have no meat in them.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.

The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.

What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion