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#substance

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #substance




Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.


Robert Jackson


#existing #freedom #heart #limited #matter

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 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

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.


Franz Kafka


#best part #fear #me #part #probably

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.


Miguel de Unamuno


#makes #only #personality #persons #root

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.


Benny Goodman


#failing #life #lose #losing #music

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.


S. I. Hayakawa


#becomes #image #important #more #substance

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






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