What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.
True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.
We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.