It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
True friendships are not easily built nor are they quickly destroyed by a mere disagreement. — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — George Combe Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is… — Roger Rosenblatt 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
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
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
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like… — Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
