Mere Quotes

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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy. — Thomas Browne
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the… — Augustus William Hare
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the… — George Henry Borrow
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. — Sharon Begley
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. — Casper Smart
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is… — Gautama Buddha
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an… — Unknown Author
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities… — Michael Beckwith
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it… — Socrates
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span… — Elizabeth Aston
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a… — George Weigel
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings… — Julia Serano
Follow your passion, weâ€™re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your… — Umair Haque
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — Unknown Author

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