Mere Quotes
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.
Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.