Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
There's just no substitute for the truth.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.
Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.
There is no substitute for experience
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.