Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

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… — Kenny Smith
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… — Kenny Smith
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… — Kenny Smith
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… — Kenny Smith
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith
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… — Kenny Smith
The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to… — Jean Gebser
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do… — Henry Hazlitt
In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the… — Stefan Zweig
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and… — Knut Hamsun
Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new experience of life… — Meher Baba
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and… — Charlie Munger
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by… — Sarah Lewis
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. — Charles Ives
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. — J L Austin
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we… — James Branch Cabell
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors… — Isobelle Carmody
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and… — Henry David Thoreau
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau

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