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Substance Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
- Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
- Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
- Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
- Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!…
- Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked…
- Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must…
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- Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
- Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a… — David Bowie
- As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you… — Jo Brand
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- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
- Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. — Abraham Cahan
- Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. — Julia Cameron
- The only substance properly so called is the soul. — Henri Frederic Amiel