Mere Quotes

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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If… — Leo Tolstoy
True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It… — William J. H. Boetcker
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as… — Immanuel Kant
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment.… — Alan Sokal
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. — William Butler Yeats
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object… — C.S. Lewis
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. — Mark Twain
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even… — C.S. Lewis
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. — Samuel Johnson
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise. — Seneca the Younger
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game. — Vin Scully
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them… — Nixon Waterman
History without politics descends to mere Literature. — John Robert Seeley
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical… — John Robert Seeley
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon… — Thomas Huxley
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.… — Albert Einstein
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is… — Helen Keller

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