#merely

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#because #been #dislike #had #may

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way. ↗

— Guy Hamilton

#change #choose #director #every #film

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#bag #baseball #book #clearest #color

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#merely #ministry #office #our #remark

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#forces #historical #history #merely #nor

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#after #captures #coercion #him #man

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#based #behavior #cowardly #eternal #ethical

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does