“'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.” SaidRaceEternalJewSubstanceStable Author:Kadmi Cohen
“We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.” PersonsFatherSonHolyEqualEternalWorshipGloryUnityGhostSubstanceMajestyHoly GhostTrinityDividingConfounding Author:Tertullian
“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.” WayDifferentWholeBodyFacesCommonQualitySubjectsColorEternalConstitutionPropertyAppearanceSubstancePermanentDifferent WaysVisibleDecayDiverseMobileFormation Author:Giordano Bruno
“Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.” PrinciplesFiguresChangedMaterialsElementsEternalFortuneSubstanceAdsCompositionExesFashionableAlteredComplexion Author:Giordano Bruno
“Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.” SaidDiesSubjectsChangedEternalRemainsAccidentsSubstanceCompositionDissolution Author:Giordano Bruno
“The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.” WorldTodayValuesGivenMinesTaughtDivineEternalSacredDancingSubstanceTimelessness Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.” IfsMenGuyFightingSidesEmotionPiecesEternalIllusionClaimsDenySubstanceHonourRebelSubjectiveTriggersMinionsIndependance Book:Chronicles of the Black Company Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.” WarHumanityStruggleEternalPrejudiceTeethSubstanceHypocrisyBigotrySuperstitionsNailsPhantomsInevitabilityTruce Book:Les Misérables Source: Les Misérables