Quotes About Substance

Aunt Ada was most emphatically one of the Substances not Included in the Outline.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are.

Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

The rag is sloshed in solvent with a psychotropic odor

it's because America has become a land without substance. We let our manufacturing go. We don't make things anymore. When you manufacture products, you add value to raw materials, and you literally create wealth. But America has stopped doing that. Americans make money now by paper manipulation

If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance

A što s beskrajnim trudom da prona?eš ravnotežu izme?u osje?aja i ironije, ljepote i strogosti, i pritom otvoriš pukotinu u supstanci svijeta kroz koju bi mogla zasjati istina za smrtnike?

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of "manufacturing a controlled substance." Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge.

No one cares about your logo, nor the font size that's on your site.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

I don't take drugs because if I did I'd love them–I'd be a junkie. And because I'm Jewish, I'd probably be a dealer, too.

love is form, and cannot be without important substance

I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.

I have a great love of the actual.

there any evidence that Henry ever uttered the other famous remark attributed to him: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." Indeed, there is no evidence that Henry ever said anything of substance or found space in his head for a single original thought. He

Where then is this self, if it is neither in the body nor the soul? And how can one love the body or the soul except for the sake of such qualities, which are not what makes up the self, since they are perishable? Would we love the substance of a person's soul, in the abstract, whatever qualities might be in it? That is not possible, and it would be wrong. Therefore we never love anyone, but only qualities.

115] Immateriality of the soul. When philosophers have subdued their passions, what material substance has managed to achieve this?

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.