#merely

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#absence #also #brought #come #condition

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#god #here #march #merely #must

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#creatures #love #love is #merely #spirits

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#action #big #great #great nation #merely

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#effort #freedom #freedom from #in the past #means

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#eyes #find #human #individuality #individuals

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ↗

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being