Quotes of: Merely Keyword

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Charles Hodge

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Laurence J. Peter

If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built u...

C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed t...

Essays and Aphorisms

I’ve often thought of the forest as a living cathedral, but this might diminish what it truly is. If I have understood Koyukon teachings, the forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the ...

The Island Within

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with eg...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers ― from the first to the last, including the most fleeting ― part of that unique love, and is each of them merely an expression of it, a variation, a particular version? In the same w...

Once on a Moonless Night

When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature of consciousness is vastly enlarged. Consciousness goes way beyond mere awareness of something, beyond the mere experience of qualia, beyond the awaren...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this ta...

Walden and Other Writings

It opens the mind toward an understanding of human nature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the very essence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberal education. It is the foremost approach to humanism, the lore of the specifically human c...

Ludwig von Mises

Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding things and then recovers unison with it—either through effort or by some happy chance. And, in a growing life, the recovery is never mere return to...

John Dewey

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

The Confessions of a Misfit

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Alvar Aalto

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

The Joy Luck Club

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

Jane Eyre

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Rowan Blaize and the Hand of Djin Rummy

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

Sons of Africa

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

The Small Bachelor

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

Master of Stupidity

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

One for the Books