#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

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

— Francis Bacon

#brings #lies #opinion #substance #sufficient

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destruction #ecstasy #frenzy #living #only

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#better #could #doctrine #experiences #expression

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#difficult #go #important #life #make

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#consisted #date #expanded #extensive #four

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#fine #fundamental #heat #indeed #indestructible

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#anyone #beat #catchy #empowering #hear

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh