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Merely Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
- [the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the…
- The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- We do not want to merely “see†beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
- We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
- Love as distinct from “being in love†is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by…
- Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the…
- Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date…
- To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the…
- God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being…
- The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
- Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on…
- And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely…
- Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to…
- We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not…
More Merely Quotes
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- 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
- I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted… — Lucille Ball
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams