I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked… — Brian Baird Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
