Merely Quotes

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.