Quotes About World

The world is my world: this is shown by the fact that the limits of language stand for the limits of my world…I am my world.

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 connexion between art and ethics.

Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern daß sie ist.

We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

The specification of all true elementary propositions describes the world completely. The world is completely described by the specification of all elementary propositions plus the specification, which of them are true and which false.

The limits of your world are the limits of your language

The logic of the world which the propositions of logic show in tautologies, mathematics shows in equations.

Tutti i fenomeni o sono illusori o la ragione di essi ci sfugge, inesplicabile. Manca affatto alla nostra conoscenza del mondo e di noi stessi quel valore obiettivo che comunemente presumiamo di attribuirle. È una costruzione illusoria continua.

Non si può giudicare il mondo d'un artista con un criterio di giudizio attinto altrove che da questo mondo medesimo

This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world — He didn't hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has worker's hands. Just remember — angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.

But Murphy's Law in the world of heroin said that if things could get out of control, then of course they would.

He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.

Il cervello è l'unica cosa che valga la pena di avere a questo mondo, non importa se si è corvi o uomini.

Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world!

In the days of Rohbeson's Slaughterhouse, flies were everywhere, crawling up the walls like living designs. I used to fall asleep looking at them. Thinking about their world. Their society. Did they have kings? Did they steal from each other? My light fixture was black-full with bodies of them. I used to think they had feelings about certain people. People who noticed them. Certain people. Me.

In the night when the moon is large, the world spreads blue in every direction.

Is our world gone? We say Farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

She, Henry Horesman's daughter, was to tell the most important person in this behemoth country, whether or not the vaccine that he'd allowed every person under the age of 20 in the USSR to take (a mind boggling 77 million young people), a vaccine given to him by a scientist from his archenemy - the US - was safe and effective? If it was a flop, or if she misrepresented its efficacy, there would be world war.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world.

Medea smiled to herself and felt reassured. Despite being so much more crowded and having so much more hustle and bustle, the world still functioned in its old way, the way she understood, with small miracles happening, people coming together and parting, and all of it forming a wonderful pattern.

Elmúlt az egész életünk, PaweÅ', és a világ semmivel se lett jobb.

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