#substance

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

#among #atlantic #before #both #both sides

The only substance properly so called is the soul. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #properly #soul #substance

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#god #individual #individuation #matter #principal

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#associated #being #comes #excellence #far

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. ↗

— William Bartram

#be the first #birds #even #first #food

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#begin #charge #design #destinies #dreams

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#everything #exist #exists #mind #only

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing