Mere Quotes - page 3

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Immanuel Kant)
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. View quote
Albert Einstein
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. View quote
Albert Einstein
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. View quote
James Cash Penney
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. View quote
Samuel Alexander
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. (Theodore Bikel)
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. View quote
Walter Lang
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. View quote
Charles Darwin
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. View quote
Charles Darwin
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. View quote
Charles Darwin
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? View quote
Robert Mugabe
A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual. View quote
Valerie Solanas
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. View quote
Michael Pollan
Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. (Samuel Smiles)
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. View quote
Georgy Zhukov
Jesus died for your sins. I'm doing it for your mere entertainment dollar. View quote
Doug Stanhope