Mere Quotes
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.
The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!