Substance Quotes - Page 5

• Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

  Karl Polanyi

  Men, Self, Ideas

  Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

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• Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Art, Skating, Tough

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

  Macklemore

  Creative, Age, Use

  "Does Macklemore Really Thrift Shop?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. July 4, 2013.

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Atoms

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, States

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• Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Profound, Magic, Secret

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• Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

  Otto Wallach

  Oil, Scent, Mixtures

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• Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Men, Mirrors

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.148, Penguin

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• You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Self, Tree, Together

  Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.207, Vintage

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• Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

  Susan Cheever

  Addiction, Mood, Alterations

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Feet, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.318

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• But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

  Charles Dickens

  Fighting, Words Of Wisdom, Shadow

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.391

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• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Addiction

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• We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.

  David Hume

  Thinking, Self, Oysters

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.786, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Science, Views

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.273, Univ of California Press

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• Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Recovery, Commitment

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• You think the shadow is the substance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Thinking, Growth

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

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• The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Animal, Mind, Special

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• The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

  Sivananda

  Father, Heaven, Vapour

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• The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

  George Sampson

  Education, People, Understanding

  George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase.

  Eduard Buchner

  Cells, Doe, Juice

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• Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

  Michael Stipe

  Abuse, Levels, Heroin

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

  Anuj

  Men, Networking, Taste

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• Sodas use “caramel coloring” to give them that dark, delicious look. Not to be confused with real caramel, caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world. It is created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure-a process that produces a cancerous substance called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI).

  Vani Hari

  Confused, Real, Dark

  Vani Hari (2015). “The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!”, p.121, Hachette UK

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