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Merely Quotes by Kenny Smith
- People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
- What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual…
- Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their…
- Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence…
- The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think…
- Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially…
- As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens…
- For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a…
- When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
- Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which…
More Merely Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- 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 the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- 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