Quotes About World

All theology represents an intellectual rationalization of the possession of sacred values... Every theology... presupposes that the world must have a meaning, and the question is how to interpret this meaning so that it is intellectually conceivable.

The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In

It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

Regardless of many people`s perceived need to be extracautious in this new age, the rise of transparency caused by the social media revolution is rapidly building a far better world.

The two main treats of the world of total transparency are its hyper-dynamics (because everything is shifting at a mind-blowing speed) and an immeasurably higher dose of ethics.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.

The person with emotional scars not only has a self-image of an unwanted, disliked, and incapable person, he also has an image of the world in which he lives as a hostile place.

There is no end to the work of salvageIn the drowning high seas of ChristmasWhen loneliness, in the name of Christ(That longing!), attacks the world.

A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

Bez te ta?ke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

Ljudi nisu glupi da ne bi vidjeli kako je teško pomiriti svijet i sebe, ni dovoljno pametni da to ne pokušavaju...

Uvijek me ?udno uljuljkivala ta povorka rije?i o stvarima koje znam. U tom poznatom krugu kojim se kre?em, osje?am se siguran, bez busija kojima prijete ljudi i svijet.

I to neprestano kruženje, sa jednom ta?kom na zemlji koja odre?uje smisao tom kretanju, koja ga ?ini odlaženjem i vra?anjem a ne lutanjem, zna?ilo je za njega stvarnu ili zamišljenu slobodu, što je svejedno, na kraju krajeva. - Bez te ta?ke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

Ovo je drugi svijet, dalek i nerazumljiv. U?inili su, i gotovo! U?inili su, i šta treba o tome pri?ati? Mi prosti ljudi volimo da sladimo i preživamo ono što doživamo. Oni djeluju i zaboravljaju.

No seré feliz siempre pero, tal vez, si tengo suerte, no sufriré la angustia de añadir dolor al mundo.

Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.

Now they were gathering because the world was unbearable, and they themselves were not.

She saw, briefly, the way the world rarely stopped to salute you or admonish you, regardless of what you had or had not accomplished.

The summits were about ambitious topics, such as, recently, leadership—leadership being something that everyone now wanted, as if the world could be made up entirely of leaders and no followers, the way children might crave an all-fireman, all-ballerina society.

Was that true? Could a woman writer simply appear in the world, unconcerned about her stature, or whether she'd be laughed at or ignored?