#merely

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. ↗

— Robert Morley

#fool #i #inflict #merely #myself

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. ↗

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#colour #ink #magical #merely #pen

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#believe #beyond #cannot #controversy #merely

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#assist #devising #merely #method #must

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#attention #because #effort #expended #fulfill