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Merely Quotes by Aristotle
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral…
- Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally…
- The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and…
- The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the…
- Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- ...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer…
- Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a…
- Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a…
More Merely Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson