Quotes About World

Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it." Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are.

He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it... He make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience...

The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!

What's important is the relevance of such a discovery to all the valleys of this world, and all the dull, dreary jobs and monotonous years that await all of us in them.

Since the world obviously doesn't function normally when Quality is subtracted, Quality exists, whether it's defined or not.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. That is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it we are defining something less than Quality itself.

sometimes, it can be enormously stressful to construct a world without stressors.

In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

it can be enormously stressful to construct a world in which nothing stressful ever occurs.

Lord," he said, "for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful, and for the struggles of this life make us strong and worthy, and for the beauties of the world make us humble and grateful.

There is a nameless mood abroad in the world today, a feeling in the blood of more than a few people, an expectation of worse things to come, a readiness to riot, a mistrust of everything one reveres.

Gelegentlich sind wir alle dumm; wir müssen gelegentlich auch blind oder halbblind handeln oder die Weilt stünde still...

Versuch, das Erlebnis zu halten, zu fixieren, schlägt fehl. Die Absolutheit ist nicht zu bewahren. Ich schliesse daran, die Welt kann nicht ohne Böse bestehen, es bringt Bewegung in die Welt. Das Gute allein bewirkt Starre.

All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which I am now trying to discover the logic of. This Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness May be converted into the future tense Of joy. I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974)

I remember distinctly the retarded, inexorable grind of the gravel under the iron tires, a sound that seemed to declare some irreversible process in which we were trapped, as though we were coffee beans dropped in a coffee grinder as big as the world.

But why should I lie here longer? I am not dead yet … And the world's way is yet long to go, And I love the world even in my anger, And love is a hard thing to outgrow. —Robert Penn Warren, from "American Portrait: Old Style," Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978<.i> (Random House, 1978)

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

It is this entitlement mentality that is eroding the foundations this country was built upon. The entitlement mentality is bringing down the American empire and the world.

He knew I was venturing out into the world without any guarantees of security.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are—how you think and how you look at the world.

writing means selling in the world of insurance and in the world of options.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…