#merely

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

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. ↗

— Henry Miller

#brings #conscious #consciousness #curative #enough

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#asset #compartments #destroy #flexibility #greatest

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#done #five #god #hear #made

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#better #candidates #does #done #elect

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #been #expressed #idea #merely

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical