Quotes About World

Every time I look at the news, I come one step close to becoming one of those Bond villains who is intent on destroying the world.

L'amour, l'amour fait tourner le monde [It's love, it's love that makes the world go round].

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

The world can be changed not by ending suffering, but by a more judicious distribution of it.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.

And as this happens, our growing sense of whatever the world outside may be, is apprehended as a modification in the neural space in which body and brain interact. It is not only the separation between mind and brain that is mythical: the separation between mind and body is probably just as fictional. The mind is embodied, in the full sense of the term, not just embrained.

The ability to generate images opened the way for organisms to represent the world around them, a world that included every possible kind of object and other whole organisms; and, just as important, it allowed organisms to represent the world inside each of them. Before the emergence of mapping and images and minds, organisms could acknowledge the presence of other organisms and of external objects and respond accordingly.

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

The spirit world is a world of thought; to think is to act, and thought is instantaneous. If we think ourselves into a certain place we shall travel with the rapidity of that thought, and that is as near instantaneous as it is possible to imagine. I should find that it was the usual mode of locomotion, and that I should soon be able to employ it.

If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.

there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.

And there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.

Despite its cosmopolitan airs, New York manufactures its own distinctive brand of high-IQ hicks: people [...] whose comprehension of the world beyond the Hudson River is willfully nonexistent.

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it.

Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw— actually saw— a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there'd be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.

He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.

Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld.