Merely Quotes

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Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so… — Dalai Lama
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do… — Simone de Beauvoir
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. — Epictetus
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind… — Joseph Campbell
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ… — Matthew Simpson
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc.… — Gilbert Highet
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that… — William Golding
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is… — Neil Postman
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily… — Francoise Sagan
It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal — John Berger
Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not… — Susan Sontag
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as… — Elizabeth Janeway
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely… — Mark Strand
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — Susan Sontag
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than… — Georges Duhamel

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