#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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#cast #chains #enhances #free #live

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

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#merely #opium #religion

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#fills #knowledge #large #merely #small

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? ↗

— Tom Hayden

#atrocities #hanoi #merely #should #trip

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#german #language #merely #others #speak