Substance Quotes - Page 17

• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

  Ray Manzarek

  Creative, Spirit, Psychedelic

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• Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Freedom, Heart, Order

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

  George Santayana

  Causes, Opinion, All Things

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.305, MIT Press

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Men, Together

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• The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

  Mortimer Adler

  Spiritual, Religious, Angel

  Mortimer J. Adler (1982). “Angels and Us”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

  Manly Hall

  Creating, Design, Patterns

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• Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance, or rendering that agreeable to the taste which is essential to the support of life, and of pleasing the palate without injury to the system, is, strictly speaking, a branch of chemistry; but, important as it is both to our enjoyments and our health, it is also one of the latest cultivated branches of the science.

  Friedrich Accum

  Art, Support, Important

  Friedrich Christian Accum (1821). “Culinary chemistry: exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper plates”, p.1

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• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

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• As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Reading, Alive

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• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Funny, Inspiring, Ifs

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• We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Attitude, Heart, Order

  "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 641-42". 1943.

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• As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Done, Records, Pleasure

  Rudyard Kipling (1989). “Complete verse”, Anchor Books

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• I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Would Be, Pretending

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• Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.

  Bruno Bauer

  Self, Ideas, Criticism

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• Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

  John Thorne

  Half, States, Feels

  John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne (2011). “Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

  Victor Hugo (1938). “Les Miserables: A Novel”

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• Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

  Aberjhani

  Art, Soul, Flavor

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

  Jessica Zafra

  Looks, Best Sellers, Universe

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• Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Fake, Cooking

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• You can't have style if you don't have substance.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Style, Ifs

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• We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life.

  Don Cupitt

  Self, Objectivity, World Love

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Titles, Matter

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• As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Long, Poverty

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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