Mere Quotes

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Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned… — John Dryden
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of… — Charles Evans Hughes
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to… — Thomas Hodgskin
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. — Arthur Middleton
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds… — Charles Dickens
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking… — Aldous Huxley
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',… — Aron Nimzowitsch
In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories. — Wes Fesler
Good nature is often a mere matter of health. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having… — George McGovern
The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who… — Ernst Zundel
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a… — David Horowitz
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or… — Alan Watts
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and… — David Bronstein
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put… — Mark Twain
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal… — Mikhail Gorbachev

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