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“In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.”

Source: The First and Last Freedom

“Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.”

World Action Lord Inspire Mere Enthusiasm Motive Infidelity Martyr Disturbed Crusades Negation Epicurean Lord Bacon

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.”

Mean Doe Desire Justice Speech Social Justice Mere Occasions Opponents Gentleness Civility

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.”

Men Looks Sometimes Life Is Fall Term Animal Existence Strange Pride Built Aim Guilt Mere Satisfied Substance Obsessed Overwhelming Complacency Mundane Stirring

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.”

Men Mean Religious Responsibility Civilization Despair Tests Instruments Mere Endure Finals Ancient Insight Insecurity Religious Faith Complacency

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.”

Kind Mean Spiritual Ability Blessing Eternal Mere Believer Enjoyed Eternal Life Life Means

Author:Watchman Nee

“The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.”

Taken Messages Ethics Mere Guides Accepted Theology Deliverance Canon

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.”

Building Concepts Mere Architecture Shed Bicycle Cathedrals Differentiate

Author:Bernard Tschumi

“There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.”

Knows Kind Different Values Lord Fire Fool Notes Mere Refuse Genuine Manifestation Prize Different Kinds Revival Altars Here And There Circulation Revival Prayer

Author:William Booth

“We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.”

People Want Art Individual Levels Unity Mere Variety Agreement Formal Comprehensive Uniformity Vernacular

Author:Walter Crane

“We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.”

Source: My Life In My Words

“In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But I would like for you young brethren especially to know that all that has happened to me in my chosen profession is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the truly important things in my life. The testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ that I have, along with my wife and my family, are my most important possessions.”

“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”

Men Life Littles Enough Left Pieces He Man Broken Mere Labour Divided Nails Fragments Pins Crumbs

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.”

Life Humans Mere Human Life Fancy Inherent Idle Texture Symbolism Degeneration

Book:Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

Source: Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

“But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.”

Giving Mind Soul Reason Animal Words Of Wisdom Eternal Mere Rational

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.”

Dream Father Love Is Kindness Mere Lips Deeds Accomplished Heavenly Our Love Good Deeds Confined Heavenly Father Unselfish Acts Of Kindness Lip Service Unselfish Acts

Author:Jack H. Goaslind

“Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can a mere financial crisis compare to that? The Generative Mystery cannot go bankrupt. It is not subject to scarcity. We never run out of God.”

World Love Running Creativity Grace Mystery Subjects Crisis Mere Financial Caring God Love Compare Recognizing Scarcity Financial Crisis Primacy Spaciousness Presence Of Love

Author:David Spangler

“Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.”

“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.”

Design Catholic Mere Providence Coincidence

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!”

Humans Persons Order Risk Example Objects Catholic Mere Abortion Life And Death Reducing Euthanasia Cloning Human Cloning

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.”

Men Ideas Accepting Knowledge Learning Influence Events Rivers Management Mere Refuse Surround Unfolding Flotsam

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.”

May Holy One Day Pressure Guilt Mere Glad Christmas Celebrate God Love Holiday Celebration Rejoice Declaring Work Day Holy Days

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.”

“It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.”

Doe Pleasure Mere Killing Sake Fishes Fishing Fly Fishing Sportsman Great Fishing

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.”

Wells Real Seems Grows Community Situation Struggle Survival Mere Desert Sentiments Sentimental Confrontation Goodwill

Author:Larry Harvey

“Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters”

People Character Roles Happenings Mere Everyday Incredibles Daily Life Realist

Author:Sandrine Bonnaire

“Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.”

Thinking Done Today Felt Worst Talent Pride Grew Mere Looking Back

Book:My art, my life: an autobiography

Source: My art, my life: an autobiography

“When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.”

Kind Different Play Form Lines Steps Taken Example Creation Color Painting Materials Concepts Mere Insight Woods Oil Artistic Etc Different Kinds Oil Painting Artistic Creation

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.”

Ifs World Self Shows Reality Lines Player Stage Tvs Cameras Mere Permanent Tv Shows Reality Tv Mug

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea”

Ideas Mere Defined Liberalism Critique

Book:Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.”

States Age Spirit United United States Constitution Mere Lawyer Vehicle Documents Constitution Of The United States Republic Day

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.”

Men Soul Play Body Seems Differences Laughing Ordinary Mere Leaving Former Latter Ordinary Man Great Souls

Book:The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

“Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.”

Knows Wells Doe Matter Might Existence Mindfulness Prejudice Mere Contrary Senses Absurd Perceive Psychics Inference

Author:Carl Jung

“Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.”

Love Persons Whole Values Perfect Love Is Emotion Mere Response Sentiments Ardent Perfect Love Whole Person

Book:Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

Source: Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

“They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.”

People Race Divine Depends Mere Myth Superiors Conception Legends Emperor Legends And Myths

Author:Hirohito

“I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.”

Eye Mere Justification Sociology Lively

Author:Richard Wall

“We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”

Soul Stars Consciousness Function Mere Nervous Isolated Galaxy Totality Nervous System

Author:Alan Watts

“From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.”

Clear Eating Mere Determine Experiments Reaching Stomach Ice Cream Stimulation Swagger Swag Glands Gastric

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.”

Men Should Learning Seeing Poet Judging Should Have Philosophical Mathematics Mere Math Mathematical Excellent Reasonable Mist Drunkards

Book:The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

Source: The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

“The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.”

Purpose Consciousness Objects Aim Mere Primaries Useless Unnecessary

Author:C. Lloyd Morgan

“It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.”

Liberty Opinion Essence Institutions Guilt Mere Absence

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.”

Men Made Feet Dog Masters Discipline Historical Mere Educated Impulse Strongest Hunting Rulers Prey Steers Yoke Severity Devouring Hunting Dog

Author:Thomas Hodgskin

“The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.”

Spiritual Process Church Evolution Notes Mere Kingdoms Redemption Kingdom Of God Incarnation

Author:Arthur Middleton

“It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.”

Men Self Self Improvement Capacity Mere Improvement Redemption Brutes

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.”

Knows Should Wells Dream Turns Animal Company Bird Mere Crowds Serving Should I Disguise Prey Nests Birds Of Prey

Book:The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

“Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .”

Men Has Beens Ends Christian Animal Attitude Christianity Regard Catholic Mere Violent Buddhist Vegetarian Unfortunate Eastern Judaism Remarks Genesis Insensitive Moralist

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.”

Hands Form Fighting Lines Kings Strategy Mere Chess Chiefs Characteristics Principal Mobility Endgame

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.”

Moments Memories Mere Parenting Togetherness

Author:Wes Fesler

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

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