Substance Quotes

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Aesop)
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. View quote
William Hazlitt
People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me. View quote
Franz Kafka
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. View quote
Maimonides
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. View quote
Emil Cioran
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. View quote
P. L. Travers
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy. (Charles Lamb)
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. View quote
Julia Cameron
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. View quote
Sam Brown
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I do not admire greatness that has no substance. View quote
Mary Balogh
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. View quote
Asa Gray
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. View quote
Herbert Croly
Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD ... It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. View quote
Albert Hofmann
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. View quote
Marquis de Sade
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. View quote
William Hazlitt
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth. View quote
Maimonides