Substance Quotes - Page 36

• If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspire, Directors, United States

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sex, Arrogance, Forgiving

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

  Philip Sidney

  Blow, Rumor, Judgment

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• Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Independent, World, Worlds Apart

  "Discourse on Metaphysics". Book by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1686.

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• Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

  Richard Whately

  Reality, Shadow, Christianity

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Soul, Shadow

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.373

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• Before I had studied Zen for thirty years,
  I saw mountains as mountains,
  and waters as waters.
  When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains,
  and waters are not waters.
  But now that I have got its very substance
  I am at rest.
  For it's just that
  I see mountains once again as mountains,
  and waters once again as waters.

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Knowledge, Years, Water

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• Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

  Michael J. Schmoker

  Reform, Favors, Management

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• The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.

  Steven J Lawson

  Christian, Jesus, Loving Life

  Steven J. Lawson (2013). “The Kind of Preaching God Blesses”, p.57, Harvest House Publishers

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

  Plautus

  Too Late, Cost, Fool

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.29

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• In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

  Leon Trotsky

  Political, Personality, Spirit

  "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?"by Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman, (ch. 11), 1936.

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• Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

  Alan Watts

  Fire, Games, Giving

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

  Vanna Bonta

  Attitude, Air, Choices

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• There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Names, Sound, Pieces

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Humanity, Mass, Inseparable

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• Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.

  Pope John Paul II

  Wise, Men, Animal

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• Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

  Rachel Carson

  War, Animal, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Environmental, Essentials, Hazards

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.132, Best Books on

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• Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

  Winona LaDuke

  Brother, Powerful, Air

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• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Piano, Keys

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as a whole, i.e, god. You cannot get more metaphysical than that. I think that Hegel scholars have to admit this basic fact rather than burying their heads in the sand and trying to pretend that Hegel is concerned with conceptual analysis, category theory, normativity or some such contemporary fad.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Thinking, Trying

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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