Merely Quotes

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.