Mirrors Quote by James Elkins

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in…

— Max Beckmann

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature…

— Francis Bacon

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

— Swami Vivekananda

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and…

— Raymond Moody

“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial “substance.” This clarification…

— Dejan Stojanovic

When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise,…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is…

— George Berkeley

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

— Aristotle