Merely Quotes

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The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought… — Rudolf Virchow
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.… — Carl Jung
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul. — John Smith
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely… — Pamela Anderson
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by… — Tryon Edwards
We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much… — Price Pritchett
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. — Walt Whitman
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the… — Amos Tversky
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world,… — Georg Feuerstein
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of… — Swami Vivekananda
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose… — Abraham Lincoln
There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or… — Henry Ford
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but… — Joseph Campbell
Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them. — Henry Jacobsen
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened… — George Orwell
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult… — Ambrose Bierce
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more… — Alfred North Whitehead
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… — Aristotle
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. — Henry Ford
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the… — Ravi Zacharias

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