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Quotes About World

Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world
~ Lucas Delattre
Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.
~ Lucy Grealy
The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath--pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world looks like something that God imagined for his own pleasure.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside. In such a way that they have the whole world as background.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate. And they both are right and wrong. But the ancients were clearer, in so far as they recognized one clear conclusion, whereas in the modern system it should appear as though everything were explained.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; perhaps science and industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world - I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which peace is the last thing that will find a home.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world: that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
5.641 [...] Das philosophische Ich ist nicht der Mensch, nicht der menschliche Körper, oder die menschliche Seele, von der die Psychologie handelt, sondern das metaphysische Subjekt, die Grenze - nicht ein Teil - der Welt.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Es ist offenbar, dass auch eine von der wirklichen noch so verschieden gedachte Welt Etwas -- eine Form -- mit der wirklichen gemein haben muss.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an illogical world would look like.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language means the limit of my world
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Me siento inclinado a decir que la expresión lingüística correcta del milagro de la existencia del mundo -a pesar de no ser una proposición en el lenguaje- es la existencia del lenguaje mismo
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A particular method of symbolizing may be unimportant, but it is always important that this is a possible method of symbolizing. And this happens as a rule in philosophy: The single thing proves over and over again to be unimportant, but the possibility of every single thing reveals something about the nature of the world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
El disco gramofónico, el pensamiento musical, la notación musical, las ondas sonoras, están todos entre sí en esa relación interna figurativa que se da entre lenguaje y mundo.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Los limites de mi lenguaje son los limites de mi mundo
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
6.4321 The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution. 6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. 6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole - a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole - it is this that is mystical.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein