Merely Quotes

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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is… — Neil Gaiman
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates… — Sam Harris
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want… — Mark Twain
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations… — Sam Harris
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means… — Albert Einstein
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young
Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? — Amy Tan
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to… — John Berryman
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Victor Hugo
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that… — Anne Fadiman
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need… — Leo Buscaglia
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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