Insubstantial Quotes

36 Insubstantial quotes by 33 unique authors

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate. — Sun Tzu
Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep… — Hari Kunzru
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,… — Medard Boss
My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information… — Hideo Kojima
The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good… — James Cash Penney
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. — Sophocles
The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room... — Laozi
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force,… — Brian Tracy
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment,… — Jan Morris
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and… — David Ben-Gurion
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel… — E L Doctorow
At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his… — Richard E. Byrd
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to… — Frederick Lenz
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from… — R. D. Laing
The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas… — Frederick Lenz
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial… — Robert Genn
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here… — Frederick Lenz
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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