Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Mere words do not feed the friars.
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.
Jesus of Nazareth always comes asking disciples to follow him--not merely "accept him," not merely "believe in him," not merely "worship him," but to follow him: one either follows Christ, or one does not. There is no compartmentalization of the fait...
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
The cheese vessel will not sail merely by words.
You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all thi...
Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.
You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
The only thing more powerful than words - is the Author who chooses them.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.
Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
