Top 258 Substances Quotes & Sayings

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.

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

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

We can create new food substances.

I think it became blurry because I grew up in a very private family. I mixed privacy and secrecy up somewhere along the line. Everything became a secret, and I thought that was how you should live. Lying about everything. The mask I put on as a kid to survive was the funny lady. Then the funny person all of a sudden became harder to do without substances. Substances let me keep the mask on longer. Until it doesn't work anymore and you're just a mess.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am

Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.

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.

Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

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.

You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.

Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential oils have a structure which only mother nature can put together. They have a life force, an additional impulse which can only be found in living things.

Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.