Mere Quotes

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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a… — C.S. Lewis
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions… — John B. S. Haldane
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably… — Mary Balogh
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere… — William Shakespeare
When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is… — Carl Jung
Weâ€™re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is… — Alister E. McGrath
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,… — Alan Watts
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting… — Matthew J. Kirby
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to… — Lisa Kleypas
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would… — C.S. Lewis
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us… — Marc Bekoff
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs,… — Martin Luther
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. — Anne Frank
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and… — Eiji Yoshikawa

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