#merely

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#die #helps #know #knowledge #merely

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beginnings #chamber #listened #meant #meant to be

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

#also #being #beyond #childhood #creativity

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#difference #life #long #long life #make

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end