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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Quote by John Henry Newton about bad, corruption, excess

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about style, being

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about opinion

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy, shadow

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Quote by Aesop about opinion, shadow

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

Quote by Peter Fonda about thinking, people

My “fear” is my substance, and, probably, the best part of me.

Quote by Franz Kafka about fear

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Quote by Mark Oliphant

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva, why, the answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about concentration, food

With each meal, when edible substances find their way into the oral cavity, thick and viscous saliva containing much mucus flows out of these glands.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else, except God.

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about opinion, god, world

Nothing can be replaced the golden substance of knowledge acquired through a long experience. Reflections and maximum RightWords Translation

Quote by Eusebiu Camilar about knowledge, experience, nothing