Quotes About Mere

Anything we attempt now proves to be a mere imitation, learnt from the schoolbooks of history. Can we ever truly devote ourselves wholeheartedly to such false pursuits? They would only degrade us.

And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth?

Jung discerned that "the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."100

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

The world is a mere succession of fortunes made and lost, lessons learned and forgotten and learned again.)

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.

The most important secular commitment is to the truth, which is based on observation and evidence rather than on mere faith.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

Nice," said Mrs Spender emphatically, "is hardly the word, if you see what I mean. I mean a man who does such wonderful good by his mere influence, though mind you I don't mean like an Indian by simply sitting and thinking of nothing.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

She wondered when she had moved from mere conspiracy to treason.

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

It was only at a late point in its progress that a chorus of comedians was officially granted by the archon; they used to be mere volunteers.

Why must you mere mortals gamble with your own thoughts when you have the goddess of corn here to keep you from screwing up?

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.

But he didn't, it happened, know the Munsters well enough to give the case much of a lift; so that they were left together as if over the mere laid table of conversation.