Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality… To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving… — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
“One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of us personally and that… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Ganjeena-e-manee ka tilism usko samajhey, Jo lafz ke Ghalib mere ashaar mein aaway.” — Hasan Suhail Siddiqui Copy Share Image
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest. — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image