Quotes of: Merely Keyword

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Life

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

Life

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Love

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

William Badke

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Wilhelm Dilthey

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Shawn Amos

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason ...

Critique of Pure Reason

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to d...

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tal...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or go...

Mere Christianity

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocau...

Searching for Schindler: A Memoir

Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Ender's Game

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Leland Stanford

You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

The 13 Clocks

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature