Merely Quotes

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I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle… — Ivan Illich
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied… — Hu Shih
Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever.… — G. Campbell Morgan
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely… — Hans Arp
Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate… — Aldous Huxley
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... — Aldous Huxley
Born merely for the purpose of digestion. — Jean de la Bruyere
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is… — Elie Wiesel
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
All tradition is merely the past. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes… — Mark Twain
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the… — Aristotle
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines… — Oscar Wilde
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm… — Albert Schweitzer
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. — Virginia Woolf
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler

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