Mere Quotes

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be… — Alan Watts
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.… — Marcel Proust
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something… — Mooji
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to… — Michael Ruse
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere… — Susanna Wesley
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But… — Oren Lyons
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of… — George Bernard Shaw
As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our… — Mike Krzyzewski
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. — Hermann Broch
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service… — Gerhard Tersteegen
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing… — Al-Ghazali
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. — Patch Adams
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around… — James Martineau
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent. — Dennis T. Avery
Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he… — Ian Kershaw
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap… — Thomas Jefferson

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