Merely Quotes

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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who… — Mary Ritter Beard
No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant.… — Jim Rohn
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. — Karel Capek
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when… — Samuel Johnson
Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they… — Swami Vivekananda
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we… — Mark Twain
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if… — Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. — Sathya Sai Baba
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind... — Walter Russell
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being… — Tertullian
According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws,… — Rabindranath Tagore
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — Oscar Wilde

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