It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it.
If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
The renewal and beauty of nature is awesome to behold, but the magnificent beauty and power of the pristine Soul is beyond the expression of mere words.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12
Only those who believe can achieve what others merely dream about. However, without these same dreams we will achieve little. Dream AND believe to ACHIEVE!!!
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
