Sentence examples for substance of all things from inspiring English sources

Nature, he asserted, is the substance of all things and is the cause for all movement.

God is now described not so much as the underlying substance of all things, but as the universal, immanent and sustaining cause of all that exists: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many modes, (i.e., everything that can fall under an infinite intellect)".

It is the essence that preserves the substance of all things as they're projected in our mind, our maternal connection with the outside reality, that otherwise is bound to remain distant, hidden behind the reflective surface of our senses.

And denoting the substance of a thing means that the essence of the thing is nothing else.

The substance of a thing is its form.

So the "substance" of a thing ultimately undermines its status as an individual.

At this point there appears to be a close connection between the essence of a substance and its species (eidos), and this might tempt one to suppose that Aristotle is identifying the substance of a thing (since the substance of a thing is its essence) with its species.

In the early manuscript, De Gravitatione, Newton denies knowing the "essential and metaphysical constitution" of matter (Newton, 2004, p. 27), and he retains the position in much later texts, including the 1713 General Scholium "We certainly do not know what is the substance of any thing.

Reason can form "transcendental ideas", more properly, "transcendent concepts" (A 327/B 384), that is, the ideas of an unconditioned subject (the self as substance), an unconditioned whole of all things and events (a completed world-whole), and an unconditioned ground of all possibility (God) (A 334/B 334/B

But they are guided by the Bible's reminder that faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". The things in which they place their faith are not demonstrable in any laboratory.

Lewis, of course, was less than thrilled when the media brought up such things as his involvement in a 2000 double-homicide that ended when he plead down to obstruction of justice or the recent Sports Illustrated article that claims Lewis used a banned substance, New Zealand deer antler extract of all things, when recovering from a torn triceps injury earlier this season.