Substances Quotes

141 quotes by 125 authors

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani
Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural,… — Julia Child
You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope… — Chris Prentiss
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. — Manly Hall
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,… — Friedrich Accum
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? — Gaston Bachelard
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. — Laozi
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no… — Peter McWilliams
These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This… — Stanislav Grof
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the… — John of the Cross
Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the… — Michael Meade
Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life… — Hippocrates
Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation — Thomas Jefferson
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of… — William Whewell
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles… — Jacques Barzun
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and… — Joseph Beuys
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive. — Marie Curie

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