Quotes About World

The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for harmony with the eternal order ... The Egyptian was free to seek out a place in a benevolent world order, but he was not to disrupt it by either nonconformity or self-abnegation.

A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn't be that person. Why aren't you that person now? Because of these walls of self-protection you've built, these attitudes of limit and lack.

The actions, thoughts, and words of each of us are important. All of us together are making the world. So we have to ask ourselves: "How am I living? What kind of actions am I taking? Am I a force for good in the world or am I just another person doing nothing to help and therefore making things worse?

It turns out that it takes courage simply to be a normal person at ease in the world among others.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

Thus Freud's clinical analysis, corrected, points to the conclusion that Eros is fundamentally a desire for union (being one) with objects in the world.

The purest human act, and a model for all human acts, is an informative, creative act which transforms a world that is merely objective, set against us, in which we feel lonely and frightened and unwanted, into a home.

Pure mathematics enters into and gives form to the physical sciences, and I have a notion that myths and images of literature also enter into and give form to all the structures we build out of world

So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these events, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

Love works magic. It is the final purpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.

The fate which oppresses us is the inertia of our spirit. Through extending and cultivating our activity we shall transform ourselves into fate. Everything seems to stream inward into us, because we do not stream outward. We are negative because we want to be—the more positive we become, the more negative will the world around us become—until at last there will be no more negation—but instead we are all in all. God wants there to be gods.

Everything that we experience is a communication . In fact, so is the world too a communication -- the revelation of spirit. The time is gone when the spirit of God was comprehensible to us. The meaning of the world has been lost to us. We have seen only its letters. We have lost that which is appearing behind the appearance.

No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world's literature.

Sanc? filan da çekme olur mu? Dünyada yeterince ac? var zaten.

Size dünyan?n dörtten fazla buca?? oldu?unu göstermeye geldik

Babas?, ö?renci olan o?luna, arada bir aferin, diyor. Ocakç?, kendi bilmi? gibi sevinçli: gülümsüyor. Bat dünya bat. Böyle giderse her mahallede bir Dostoyevski ç?kacak Olric. Dünya borsalar?nda Dostoyevski hisseleri dü?ecek. Her hafta bir Karamazov, yeralt?n?z kadar yeralt?.

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.