Quotes About World

In so far as your metaphysical beliefs are implicit, you vaguely interpret the past on the lines of the present. But when it comes to the primary metaphysical data, the world of which you are immediately conscious is the whole datum.

Such a conception is paradoxical if you will persist in thinking of the actual world as a collection of passive actual substances with their private characters or qualities. In that case, it must be nonsense to ask, how one such substance can form a component in the make-up of another such substance.

Deep in the greenwood of my heart Is my abiding-place: I cloak my soul at feast and mart; I mask my face. Outlawed, but not alone, for Truth Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

Não se deve esperar da cultura de massas e, menos ainda, da sua versão capitalista de indústria cultural, o que ela não quer dar: lições de liberdade social e estímulos para a cons­trução de um mundo que não esteja atrelado ao dinheiro e ao status.

Our thoughts make spirals in their world.

For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.

In the gray beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man?

All the world is bitter as a tear

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

People in this world are like travelers whose journey is going on though they are asleep. ( Life's journey is going on though men may not feel it ).

When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.

the question of racism and its scientific basis had to be confronted at an international level as part of the attempt to build a successful post-fascist world order.

There's no point in making up a world, Elisabeth said, when there's already a real world, There's just the world, and there's the truth about the world. You mean there's the truth, and there's the made-up version of it that we get told about the world, Daniel said. No. The world exists. Stories are made up, Elisabeth said. But no less true for that, Daniel said.

You can't expect to live in the world like the world's your private myth.

The world, she said and smiled. Bounteous. But that's what it's all about, isn't it? What? he said. The world being bounteous? No, she said. What we believe is happening.

Na, mondja. Figyelj. Nem szabad többé elhinned minden hazugságot arról, hogy a világ meg van mérgezve. És a bombákat. És a vegyszereket. Mert ebbÅ'l semmi nem igaz. Nem?, kérdi Arthur. Nem, mondja Sophia. Mert akik mindenfélét csinálnak a világban, miért ne a legjobbat akarnák a világnak?

Els punts i final ens agraden: les simetries, trobar sentit al que no en té -¿és potser aquesta, la gran tasca de la literatura: explicar-nos el món per fer-nos creure que té sentit?

The world order was changing and what was truly new, here and there… was that the people in power were self-servers who'd no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history.

Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to listen to Radio 4 in any innocence ever again. Her ears had undergone a sea-change. Or the world had. But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and — Rich and what? she thought. Rich and poor.

Even in the timeless zone of the average day of an unwell person invisible to the rest of the fast-moving world there was Deirdre at four o'clock.

I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.