#merely

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#dazzling #entire #exciting #exciting things #existence

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#away #class #feel #go #go away

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ↗

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#comes #late #merely #never #often

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. ↗

— Valerie Solanas

#collection #community #family #isolated #merely

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. ↗

— Henry Clay

#endless #existed #generation #made #merely