#substance

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. ↗

— William Windham

#country #entrusted #persons #should #some

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#men

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#substance-abuse #money

Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.” “McLuhanesque?” “Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.” “In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?” “Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#medium #message #murakami #religion #substance

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

#books #fact #substance #truth #witty

Sometimes you have to tell a a bunch of lies to get at the truth. ↗

— Stella Atrium

#writing-craft #writing-craft

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#much #opposed #pay #public #public relations

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#brings #lies #opinion #substance #sufficient