#merely

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#belief #celebrities #certain #clerical #cult

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#akin #good #i #kind #merely

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#been #does #facts #logically #merely

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#many #merely #people #prejudices #rearranging

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#merely #naturalistic #philosophy #product #support

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#certain #certain things #co-operate #co-operation #commitment

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #conservatism #filling #inside #means

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#common #common sense #consists #falling #falling in love