Quotes of: Merely Keyword

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

Nancy Lublin

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

The Art of Counseling

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Ancillary Justice

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

An Abundance of Katherines

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

The Abolition of Man

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

Hear the Wind Sing

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Hyperion

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Killosophy

My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.

Richard II

When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…

Rock Star Lover

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.

Rise of the Morningstar

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

Ressentiment

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

The Social Contract

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

In a Sunburned Country

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,

Sans Destination

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.

Shadows of Ecstasy