Quotes by Substance We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking. Susan Cain too-muchsubstancethinking He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance. Susanna Clarke gentlemanswallowingsubstance When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are. Suzanne Segal who-i-amsubstanceanswers Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas returnsubstancefacts How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive. Suzy Kassem substancedepthmen Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance. T. D. Jakes substancebridgeswant Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. ( Tananarive Due shadowsubstancepast Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. Swami Vivekananda substancesoulmen Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same. Swami Vivekananda formsubstancenames The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances. Terence McKenna communitysubstancepeculiar 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", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will Swami Vivekananda egosubstancebrain What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own. Theodor Adorno spheressubstancelife [This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body. Terence McKenna mysterysubstancebody And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world. Theodore Roethke substancemindlong God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter. Thomas Aquinas individualsubstancematter The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you. Thomas Chalmers preparationsubstancebelieve We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God. Thomas Aquinas substanceprinciplesevil There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance. Thomas Hobbes substanceidentitykings Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience. Thomas More substanceimportantgold For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haphazardly making Hollywood type announcements. So that's where we are there [on Comic-Con], just making sure that when we do something to say that it's something. Thomas Tull hollywoodsubstancereal«1314151617181920212223»
