Quotes About World

It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion.

A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before known on earth, a strange kind of nonculture or anticulture we call modern.

The Church has never been a scapegoat more than it is today. But one must see the symbolic value of this: whatever the Church may have lost by its compromises with the world, its enemies now give back by obliging it to play the same role as Christ. This is its true vocation. And now that it has been reaffirmed, it will enable the Church to shake off the indolence and decadence of the age that is now drawing to a close. MSB

Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.

The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more 'artificial'…

Protestantism, like the modern world, is built upon mere negation, the same negation of principles that is the essence of individualism; and one can see in it one more example, and a most striking one, of the state of anarchy and dissolution that has arisen from this negation.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

To be a world changer; resolve your own inner conflict

Di me due libri soltanto due libri ti restano. Verrò a prenderli un giorno e ti dirò che ho girato il mondo confuso nel tuo ricordo e ho amato tutto ciò che incontravo per disperdermi: e dirò che mi hai rubato Montale e il senno in un giorno di sole.

Each child she found was a molecule, a part of herself still remaining in the scary world she had left behind.

That was the thing about the butterflies. They could be kind when Celia felt bitter. They could encompass all the beauty of this world even when the skies smarted gray

A farm without stock, a home without children. The world here was dying.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

IN OUR WORLD, we need a clear awareness of the interdependent nature of nations, of humans and animals, and of humans, animals and the world. Everthing is of interdependent nature. I feel that many problems, especially man-made problems, are due to a lack of knowledge about this interdependent nature.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or "the divinization of earthly politics"—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of nearly every religious system in the world.

The more you trust yourself, the more you will change the world

There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.

You not only create your life with your thoughts, but your thoughts add powerfully to the creation of the world. If you thought that you were insignificant and had no power in this world, think again. Your mind is actually shaping the world around you.

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the negative events of the world, you not only add to them, but you bring more negative things into your own life at the same time.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

Amigo mío, lo hecho está bien hecho; y mejor andaría el mundo si, en casos dados, no fuesen leguleyos trapisondistas y demás cuervos de Temis, sino duendes, los que administrasen justicia. Y con esto, buenas noches y que Dios y Santa María nos tengan en su santa guarda y nos libren de duendes y remordimientos.