Substance Quotes - Page 26

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

Aristotle

Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Kind

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Aristotle

Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom, Destruction

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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Gottfried Leibniz

Reality, Essence, Words Of Wisdom

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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Gottfried Leibniz

Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Differentiation

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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Gottfried Leibniz

Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Unity

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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

Gottfried Leibniz

Mean, Simple, Mirrors

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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

Gottfried Leibniz

Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Speak

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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Gottfried Leibniz

Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Compounds

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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Gottfried Leibniz

Mean, Simple, Words Of Wisdom

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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

Ego, Brain, States

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

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Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.

Nathan S. Kline

Emotional, Use, Fields

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It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Love, Real, Giving

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A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

Alan Watts

Baby, Philosophy, War

Alan W. Watts (2007). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality”, p.23, New World Library

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Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

Margaret Fuller

Beauty, Truth, Flower

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Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.

John of Damascus

Father, Spring, Son

Saint John of Damascus (2010). “Fathers of the Church: Writings”, p.162, CUA Press

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Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

Arthur Peacocke

Philosophical, Creative, Different

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Substance should outweigh perfection.

Phil Ramone

Perfection, Should

Phil Ramone (2007). “Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music”, p.68, Hachette UK

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It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer, Media, Hysteria

"New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.

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The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

Eric Butterworth

Goal, Energy, Needs

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In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Ron Kind

Believe, Opportunity, Years

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By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

William Shakespeare

Soul, Soldier, Shadow

'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 217

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God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

Ernest Holmes

God, Essence, Spirit

Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.3, DeVorss & Company

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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt

Style, Excellence, Jargon

Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.108, Transaction Publishers

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Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

Napoleon Hill

Men, Earth, May

Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

Laozi

Exercise, Winning, Space

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