Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. — Aristotle
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. — Aristotle
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether… — Gottfried Leibniz
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as… — Gottfried Leibniz
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. — Gottfried Leibniz
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations… — Gottfried Leibniz
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. — Gottfried Leibniz
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples. — Gottfried Leibniz
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding. — Gottfried Leibniz
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this",… — Swami Vivekananda
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will… — Nathan S. Kline
It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the… — Alan Watts
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for… — Margaret Fuller
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring… — John of Damascus
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats… — Robert South
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
Substance should outweigh perfection... — Phil Ramone
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and… — Eric Butterworth
In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is… — Ron Kind
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. — William Shakespeare
God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form. — Ernest Holmes
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. — Irving Babbitt
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing… — Napoleon Hill

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