#mere

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does

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

— Robert Morley

#fool #i #inflict #merely #myself

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. ↗

— Samuel Morse

#being #character #condition #employer #having

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. ↗

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#colour #ink #magical #merely #pen

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. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#believe #beyond #cannot #controversy #merely

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#found #good #holy #make #many

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

#contemporary #contemporary world #does #future #high

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. ↗

— Herbert Read

#developed #forms #i #i am #independent

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#everything #excuse #had #impossible #lead