#mere

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #fact #facts #investigation

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#fat #guns #makes #merely #powerful

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity? ↗

— Brian Baird

#asked #elected #entity #events #federal

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. ↗

— Theodore Gericault

#brush #colour #imagination #merely #produces

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ↗

— Andre Breton

#doomed #exploring #forgotten #fraction #i

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#better #hates #information #inquire #know

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere