Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of… — Alexander Monro Copy Share Image
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and… — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
