Mere Quotes

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It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane
People who expect deference resent mere civility. — Mason Cooley
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the… — Anna Brownell Jameson
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. — George Eliot
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a… — Joseph Butler
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere… — Marshall McLuhan
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away… — Vladimir Lenin
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. — Robert M. Hensel
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand

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