#mere

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

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

— Guy Debord

#directly #lived #mere #once #representation

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

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows

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