To inspire is to breathe. To breathe is to inspire.
By
nōvel
on March 16, 2010
Inspire:
1. to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
2. to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.): to inspire confidence in others.
3. to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.: to inspire a person with distrust.
4. to influence or impel: Competition inspired her to greater efforts.
5. to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does: They were inspired by a belief in a better future.
6. to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence: writings inspired by God.
7. to guide or control by divine influence.
8. to prompt or instigate (utterances, acts, etc.) by influence, without avowal of responsibility.
9. to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.: a philosophy that inspired a revolution.
breathe
5. to live; exist: Hardly a man breathes who has not known great sorrow.
-Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
Discussion (8)
There are two stages to breathing.
Plethodontids notwithstanding.
Claims inspired by this comment
The concrete definition of a term is the most honourable definition of that term.Re : Inspired claim
I disagreed with both the literal claim taken per se, and the inferred claim based upon the context of the description. I merely chose to comment based upon the former, because it is in my opinion both simpler and more interesting.
How is it more interesting?
As Master X said, breathing is more than just inhaling. By your logic this would also be true:
A square is a rectangle. A rectangle is a square.
It's not. There are rectangles that are not squares. I've seen them. I've seen them going †o those parties that I never get invited to. The bastards.
I was at that party. I threw up in the fondue.
I am glad. You bastard.
Consider me a party-crasher?
I wonder how many of us exist...