Death not merely ends life it also bestows upon it a silent completeness snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
In the past missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers or with iPads or phones.
We know that communication must be hampered and its form largely determined by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is or is not believed by a majority of the people.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure the process is its own reward.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
The bass player's function along with the drums is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
In day-to-day commerce television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.