Form And Substance Quotes

• Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opposites, Substance, Coins

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• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Ideas, Substance

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• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

  Dee Hock

  Past, Substance, Form

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Income, Substance

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

  Asger Jorn

  Expression, Substance, Painting

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual Bible! There would be as many Bibles as there are souls, and they would differ as widely. But in one thing, amid all their differences, they would probably agree: they would lack the variety, both in form and substance, of the Holy Book which the Church of God places in the hands of her children.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Children, Book, Hands

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• Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Real, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.26, Del Rey

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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