#merely

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ↗

— Will Cuppy

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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

— Bliss Carman

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

— Hermann Goering

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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

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

— Theodore Gericault

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