Comes and goes Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

— Asger Jorn

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

— Maimonides

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

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

— James Elkins

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

— Ronald Reagan

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

— Gilles Deleuze

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition…

— Giordano Bruno

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.

— Clarence Manion

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

Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which…

— Maimonides

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

— Swami Vivekananda

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