Merely Quotes

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Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a… — Alister E. McGrath
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the… — Samuel Smiles
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes… — Marquis de Sade
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore
The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession… — Ambrose
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. — Adam Clarke
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless… — Carl Jung
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are… — Stephen Levine
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. — Charles W. Chesnutt
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. — Hannah Arendt
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that… — Seneca the Younger
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you… — Percy Cerutty

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