Quotes About Substance

Western philosophy exhibits schemas such as the substance-attributes relation, where substance is the present being which the attributes modify;

What is a Sufi?" Sufis are Muslims who emphasize essence over form and substance over appearance in their spiritual practices

Man is primarily a spiritual being, and as such, is of the nature and substance of the Eternal Spirit, the Unchangeable Reality, which men call God. Goodness, not sin, is his rightful condition; perfection, not imperfection, is his heritage, and this a man may enter into and realize now if he will grant the condition, which is the denial or abandonment of self, that is, of his feverish desires, his proud will, his egotism and self-seeking — all that which St. Paul calls the natural man.

For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.

Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

The challenge is always around culture. I think that's often underestimated because people focus on the substance and the practical; soft steps go missing.

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.

Show me a Great Man and I will show you a Woman of Substance

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

It's not the price but it's the value of the thing that making them important

One good product is better than many fake goods.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

People don't care what you name it, G. They like pie for what's on the inside.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

In theory an addictive relationship can be established with just about anything, so long as the substance, person, or activity relieves the threat of overt depression