#mere

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ↗

— William James

#decide #drunkenness #experience #feeling #feeling good

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #darkness #discern #existence #far

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#blind #intellectual #mere #play #theory

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#affect #basically #claims #did #doctrine

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#family #father #financial #financial resources #his

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#cause #christians #endure #even #merely