Mere Quotes

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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of… — Felix Frankfurter
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal… — Robert H. Jackson
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to… — Nancy Banks-Smith
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by… — Ramana Maharshi
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than… — Wayne Thiebaud
What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event… — N. T. Wright
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one… — Stefan Zweig
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in… — Elisabeth Elliot
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy… — Meher Baba
A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects… — Milan Kundera
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is… — Brennan Manning
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm… — Ernst Haeckel
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. — Frank J. Tipler
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and… — Beryl Markham
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and… — Sarah Bernhardt
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any… — Rudyard Kipling

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