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Sanity is merely an insane aspiration.
— D.B. Woodling
Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see.
— Seth Adam Smith
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
— Theodore Gericault
Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness. — Toba Beta
No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance!
— Dalai Lama XIV
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.
— Savitri Devi
Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress?
— Jeremy Hawthorn
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
— Aldo Leopold
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
— Paul Monroe
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
— Karl Lagerfeld
Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Is he blind, or merely stupid?""He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing. — George R R Martin
My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
— Narendra Modi
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
— Oscar Wilde
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
— Peter Wilson
A PhD does not automatically denote wisdom. Merely perseverance.
— J. Michael Adams
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
— Mikhail Lermontov
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
— Mason Cooley
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
— Enrico Fermi
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
— George Santayana
Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.
— Edmund Clowney
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
— E. E. Cummings
There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.
— Steven J. Lawson
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
— Baltasar Gracian
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
— George MacDonald
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
— Norman Grubb
Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.
— Lois Greiman
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it.
— Jerome L. Singer
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
— Theodore W. Parker
Life isn't about merely surviving. It's about living.
— D. Nichole King
Life is not to live merely, but to live well.
— Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored.
— Oscar Wilde
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
— Philip Yancey
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
— Marcel Proust
God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.
— Michael Horton
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
— Emile M. Cioran
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
— Christopher Lasch
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
— James Dobson
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
— Erving Goffman
We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.
— Camille Paglia
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
— Vikas Swarup
If he could get the idea of paper money past them then he was home and, if not dry, then at least merely Moist.
— Terry Pratchett
The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
— Thomas Sowell
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— G.K. Chesterton
The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
— Jeremy Aldana
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
— Johannes Brahms
...living is merely the chaos of existence...
— Yukio Mishima
I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
— Miriam Makeba
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
— Gautama Buddha
Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive.
— Debasish Mridha
Both bad driving and bad voting are dangerous not merely to the individual who practices them, but to innocent bystanders.
— Bryan Caplan
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.
— Mark Helprin
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
— Dorothy Parker
Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
— Laurie R. King
To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
— Thomas Carlyle
For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.
— Sadie S. Forsythe
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
— Gore Vidal
There's a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible - just merely unlikely.
— Nick Nwaogu
