Merely Quotes

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.