“Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.” MayActionCoursesCausesVirtueEffectsJudgingSourceSpringMereDeedsSmallestSpring May Author:Alexander Pope
“Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.” ReadingProcessSourceUnderstoodMereGuests Author:Roland Barthes
“Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.” HumansWholeActionJoyReligionExistenceChristianitySourceMereSupremeMortalsLiftsSoleReproductionFelicity Book:Views and Opinions Source: Views and Opinions
“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.” StatesGovernmentMightFormNamesMoneyPowerEffectsDutySourceInstrumentsMereOfficersTreasury Author:Andrew Jackson
“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.” ArtEndsInspirationArtistCultureGivenExistenceTeachingModernMediaEventsInformationProduceSourceFineMassGainsMereDataFabricEchoesReignImaginativeDrainsFine ArtsMass MediaDead EndsAffording Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” KnowsFirstsLastsDiesStrongForceStarsVoiceNaturalLove IsSilenceKnow HowSunSourceOppositesErrorsMereIllnessBetrayalWoundsBlindnessWearinessWitheringEliotNatural DeathLove Never Dies Author:e. e. cummings
“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth” YearsMayHas BeensEndsFormWealthStageDivineFlowerSourceLimitsLateLowsDancingMereGloriousThis DayPhasesInwardProfessionalismFadingFrivolousProficiencyMay Flowers Author:Ruth St. Denis
“Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.” IfsGivingSaidDreamJoyJesusChristLove YouSourceJesus ChristDown AndMereDelightYour DreamsIndicationOne You Love Author:Oswald Chambers
“A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.” WorldMaySourceLowsMereSatisfactionBeastOur WorldScholarApes Author:Jeffrey Kluger