#mere

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#end #experience #in the end #literary #material

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#acts #beginning #completion #consist #gratitude

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#form #identifying #important #important step #latter

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. ↗

— Hans Bender

#earth #evil #exist #fear #good

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#know #merely #now #saying #silence

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our