#mere

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He 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

#blood #brain #certain #cool #everything

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. ↗

— Ram Dass

#expect #experience #important #including #merely

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#found #friends #his #home #man

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#i #i am #ideas #interested #merely

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#contemplation #create #does #mere #our

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#congress #go #i #merely #she

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #election #go #merely #never

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#ask #conduct #consult #died #examination

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. ↗

— John W. Foster

#god #mere #time