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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.
Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.
God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows.
I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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.
Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind.
If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book. That's the way it works.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.