"Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet."
Read quote
3 likes
Matter quotes
Matter
6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Matter
Browse quotes that often appear alongside matter — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Matter quotes (page 62 of 301)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is."
Read quote
3 likes
"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."
Read quote
3 likes
"Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently."
Read quote
3 likes
"In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs."
Read quote
3 likes
"Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters."
Read quote
3 likes
"No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you."
Read quote
3 likes
"No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables."
Read quote
3 likes
"And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good."
Read quote
3 likes
"Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him."
Read quote
3 likes
"You have to do everything possible to win no matter what."
Read quote
3 likes
"It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy."
Read quote
3 likes
"A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been."
Read quote
3 likes
"Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?"
Read quote
3 likes
"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are."
Read quote
3 likes