Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
The key to happiness is to use the source of happiness in the right quantity, at the right time and in the right way. There is nothing wrong per se with love, family, wealth, pleasure, power or fame. They are all necessary for happiness and living a good life. However, they become a source of problem, when we use them wrongly or in excess or at the wrong time.
There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people?
Donβt live by quantity, live by quality.
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.