Quotes About World

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!

The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties)

However, come, let's go, the world's turned gray And chilly, evening mists are rising, At nightfall it's indoors you want to be. 1170 But why should you stand still, astonished, staring? What can you see in the dusk to find upsetting?

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

I go my way in the world wearing the smile of the dreamer.

Oh, oh! You have destroyed the beautiful world.

I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

Und da verließ ich sie mit dem Versichern: sie selbigen Tags nochzu sehn, und hab mein Versprechen gehalten, und seit der Zeit können Sonne, Mond und Sternege ruhig ihre Wirthschaft treiben, ich weis weder daß Tag noch daß Nacht ist, und die ganze Welt verliert sich um mich her.

Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed.

A longing pure and not to be described drove me to wander over woods and fields, and in a mist of hot abundant tears I felt a world arise and live for me.

Es bleibt doch endlich nach wie vor Mit ihren hunderttausend Possen Die Welt ein einzig großer Tor

You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.

Wilhelm, che cos'è per il nostro cuore il mondo senza l'amore? È una lanterna magica senza luce.

To break up the Roman Empire and to give a new order to the world is the first and principle historical task of the Germans.

am I not the same being who once enjoyed an excess of happiness, who at every step saw paradise open before him, and whose heart was ever expanded towards the whole world? and this heart is now dead; no sentiment can revive it. my eyes are dry; and my senses, no more refreshed by the influence of soft tears, wither and consume my brain.

daß Mißverständnisse und Trägheit vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt machen als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiß seltener.

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed. 13

Non c'è mezzo più sicuro per sfuggire al mondo che l'arte, e non ci si lega a esso con maggior sicurezza che tramite l'arte.