#mere

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#away #beauty #desert #feel #gas

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#europe #india #merely #powerful

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ↗

— Paul Valery

#artist #finishes #his #merely #never

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#challenge #culture #market #merely #place

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#dramatic #editing #film #mere #over

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. ↗

— James Dobson

#husbands #leadership #merely #observation #their

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#every #every day #fills #gentle #happy

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good