Quotes About World

A gift. From a king. To her as the light of the world. What should she do?

Hild roamed the vale and its thicket of woods, collecting herb and watching the world slow down, fade, and tidy itself away for winter.

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

The near future will probably bring extraordinary catastrophes, but what threatens the world most certainly is not the violence of ravenous crowds, but the weariness of boring masses.

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

After seeing work exploit and demolish the world, laziness seems like the mother of the virtues.

Without the spread of oriental cults and without the Germanic invasions, Hellenistic civilization would have initiated, with Rome as its starting-point, the Americanization of the world.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

The reactionary is mistaken if he assumes that the democrat rejects his reasons but shares his repugnance. The modern world is a pigsty in whose morass modern man rolls happily.

Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.

Our freedom has no other guarantee than the barricades which the anarchic countenance of the world throws up against the imperialism of reason.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today's world

Democratic thinking tends to deduce the consequences of action with the same straightforward confidence as the implications of a principle. What the reactionary, on the other hand, knows how to see is the paradoxical nature of actions, of people, of the world.

To excuse his attacks against the world, man determined that matter is inert.

Epistemología que acople un idealismo ontológico a un realismo axiológico. El mundo es mi representación, menos los esplendores que lo rasgan.

The fact that nothing in this world fulfills us does not prevent us from longing for a world that is less ignoble and less ugly. In a well-tended garden the soul observes with nobler tranquility the initial onslaught of winter.