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

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

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

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde

The two heaviest known substances are neutronium and cartons of books. — Robert J. Sawyer

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. — Noam Chomsky

Our expectancies are rewarded by substances. — Malcolm Godwin

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

I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room. I'll turn to less mainstream substances if I want to rearrange the furniture. — Tom Robbins

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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

Conviction affects all substances in the vicinity. — Toba Beta

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

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

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. — Karl Marx

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. — Mortimer Adler

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — C. G. Jung

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

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food. — John H. Tobe

My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair. — CM Punk

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. — C. G. Jung

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. — Laozi

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench

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

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. — Wayne Thiebaud

I don't really begrudge anyone who uses substances, I just feel that yoga is a more sustainable way to find peace because it's from the inside out. — MC Yogi

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

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances. — George Ohsawa

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

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

Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances. — Lucrecia Martel

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick. — Herbert M. Shelton

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

Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man. — Frances M. Young

The agranular reticulum functions for the synthesis of lipid substances and for other processes of the cells promoted by intrareticular enzymes. — John E. Hall

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

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. — Charles Dickens

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. — Andrew Weil

Casein, and very likely all animal proteins, may be the most relevant cancer-causing substances that we consume. — T. Colin Campbell

I do not admire greatness that has no substance. — Mary Balogh

Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer. — Henry Spencer

Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia — Lester Grinspoon

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends. — Hippocrates

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time. — Asa Don Brown

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. — Asa Don Brown

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

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

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

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

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. — Marianne Williamson

We can create new food substances. — Craig Venter

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

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances. — Robert Tisserand

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

Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances. — Toba Beta

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? — Gaston Bachelard

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

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

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

Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees. — Jamais Cascio

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

Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be. — Adam Alter

Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive. — H.E. Fairbanks

All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Certain substances, like magnesium, bicarbonate, iodine and selenium are mineral medicines we all should be taking for life. — Mark Sircus

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations.
When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters. — Toba Beta

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

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