Quotes by Substance The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato. Frederic G. Kenyon substanceplatopeople When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. Freddie Mercury musiciansubstancewant My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka fearlesssubstancefear My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena. Frederick Gowland Hopkins substancesimpleanimal The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. Freya Stark substancelandunhappy The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them. Friedrich August von Hayek substancecookingthinking The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance Frederick Lenz buddhismgiantssubstance Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Friedrich Nietzsche public-opinionsubstanceculture The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. Gaston Bachelard substancematterlife To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other. Gary Zukav enteringsubstancedepth 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 nounssubstancebody Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom. Gaston Bachelard substanceairjoy Designs are a revelation to me. It's like Geoffrey Beene designsubstancegiving According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe. Gary Zukav unitysubstancereal The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel substanceessencespirit I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it. George Berkeley denysubstanceshould He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form. Georg C. Lichtenberg substancehatekind Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances. George Ohsawa toxinschewingsubstance Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters. George Monbiot soilencounterssubstance The body is the substance of the stone. George Ripley substancebodystones«23456789101112»
