Quotes About Material

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.

That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Along with statements in this material that "the Father" will give or send the Spirit-Advocate (14:16, 26), we have other statements that Jesus himself will send the Spirit (15:26; 16:7). In 15:26 there is an interesting link of Jesus and "the Father" in jointly sending forth the Spirit, with Jesus portrayed here as promising the Advocate, "whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father" (NRSV).

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Most folks use black ash. Hickory is so heavy, and birch warps more easily. But if you soak black ash and bend up the front, when it dries, it stays that way. Keep 'em well waxed and stored straight, and you got skis for a lifetime.

remained two days to furnish ourselves with pitch, which is a thing very necessary for ships.

Inflame your mind with your heart's desire, then start taking pragmatic action on the material plane to trigger the manifestation of your desire.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

The same wood used for the coffin and the roof structure. (Au cercueil sert le même bois, et à la charpente du toit)

The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.

Your spiritual well-being is far more important than anything material. So God will bring you to utter dependence on Him rather than allow your possessions to become a destructive idol in your life.

The doctor must disclose all 'material risks'. A risk is material when 'a reasonable person, in what the physician knows or should know to be the patient's position, would be likely to attach significance to the risk or cluster of risks in deciding whether or not to forgo the proposed therapy'. Only where disclosure of the risks would pose 'a serious threat of psychological detriment to the patient' could non-disclosure be justified.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

the Arthurian material was never merely 'legends'; it was a myth—a timeless, universal story with many meanings.

But information is physical.

The equations of fluid flow are nonlinear partial differential equations, unsolvable except in special cases. Yet Ruelle worked out an abstract alternative to Landau's picture, couched in the language of Smale, with images of space as a pliable material to be squeezed, stretched, and folded into shapes like horseshoes.

The fractal dimension of a metal's surface, for example, often provides information that corresponds to the metal's strength.

His archetypal principle was this: that flow wants to realize itself, regardless of the surrounding material.

Production masters material; service submits to it.

They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They