Merely Quotes

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

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

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.