Quotes About World

in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the littlelame balloonmanwhistles far and wee

when the world is puddle-wonderful

The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

Nuestro beso convierte el mundo en polvo

In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

but it seemed iniquitous that anyone should mispronounce the name of the man who was more to him than all the world

the system which is in control in Argentina and most of the world is nothing less that the best democracy which money can buy, allied with drug trafficking and organized crime. The sad conclusion, then, is that the worst which this "democracy" has in store for us is corrupt government; the best it has to offer is government by millionaires.

Reason governs the world. World history "is therefore a rational process" (Hegel, Lectures). The German word for reason is Vernunft.

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured—especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Around the world the problem of Christian work is the problem of the Christian worker.

You're not alone. You're never alone. Use creativity to change what world you're in at this moment.

Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.

And if we also ask, 'And how exactly did that happen?' we will be asking about history. Not just a story, but our story, the story that we call the history of the world. Shall we begin?

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.