Substance Quotes

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.