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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. and, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
The best definition i can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. the bible definition in the 11th chapter of hebrews is, 'faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' in other words, faith says amen to everything that god says. faith takes god without any ifs, if god says it, faith says i believe it; faith says amen to it.
On my 70th birthday, i was asked how i felt about mankind's prospects. this is my reply: we are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. if we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. what will it be?
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. the name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen hey, you
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Substance is a subspecies of value. when you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." the problem then disappears. the world of objects and the world of values is unified.
We think that the kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. i am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
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