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Quotes About World

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.
~ Stéphane Mallarmé
Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.
~ George Leonard
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.
~ Patti Smith
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
~ Connor Jessup
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
~ Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil
I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
~ Manuel De Landa
Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
~ Karl Marx
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
~ Adam Sedgwick
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
~ Noah Taylor
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.
~ H. L. Mencken
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
~ Philippe Sollers
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
~ Ben Harper
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.
~ Bertrand Russell
I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
~ Germany Kent
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.
~ Kedar Joshi
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
~ George Santayana
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.
~ J. M. Coetzee
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
~ Alexander Smith
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche