Quotes About World

Il mondo è tornato al suo posto." Lei replicò sfottente: "Quale posto?

religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound scientific conception of society and of life.

I concluded by saying that the world urgently needed to be changed, that there were too many tyrants who kept peoples enslaved. But it should be changed by peaceful means.

Un punto luminoso determina un valle. Ese instante geométrico se une al momento de esta piedra y de la superposición de espacios que forman el mundo imaginario, la memoria me devuelve intactos aquellos días; y ahora

Oye, gordito, ¿eres el pintor más grande de México o del mundo? —Del mundo, Lupe, del mundo. —¿Hasta de Chinajapón? —Hasta de China y de Japón. —¿Chinajapón no es un solo país? —No. —¿Entonces por qué cantan eso de «chino, chino, japonés, come caca y no me des»? —¿Es eso lo que sabes de geografía, Lupe?

The window's amber glass gives a diamond cutout into the world which is one I wouldn't want to be in — leafless and gray with frozen flaques on which to slip and bust your ass, and everyone inside's a bit gray, too, as if the sky's cold hand had caressed then invaded the face.

Halbwüchsige [...], die sich in der Welt schon abgehärtet haben, aber noch keine Verantwortung tragen, auch für ihre Körper nicht. Sie vertragen es, wenn Unten einmal Oben ist und umgekehrt.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.

The story had a stilted feel, and yet while you were reading you felt totally inside its world, a world where reality mirrored the grammar constraints, and what Slavic 101 couldn't name didn't exist.

But I was in Russia because I had looked at the literatures of the world and made a choice.

It goes without saying that mastering a skill engenders a sense of satisfaction, but the feeling is ephemeral and dissipates once on the plateau of competency; because this kind of satisfaction is directed toward yourself, whereas the investment of learning about the world is repaid in love—a love of the world, a joy of living, which is permanent and will last till the grave.

We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.

Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Dijkstra almost laughs: The droid sounds offended—or eager to be offended. So he just says, "Well, I guess we're all rivals in the end, aren't we? Competition makes the world go 'round.

Artificial and forced, instruments themselves of repression, the borders were their obstacle, having wiped away what was best about the Arab world. They hewed to no certain logic; a glimpse at any map suggests as much. The lines are too straight

Those who reject the archetypal hypothesis remain unimpressed by the discovery of parallel themes in myths derived from different parts of the world,

Archetypes versus cultural transmission Those who reject the archetypal hypothesis remain unimpressed by the discovery of parallel themes in myths derived from different parts of the world, maintaining that these can be explained just as well by human migration and cultural diffusion as by an innate predisposition.

The existence of such objects also supports the suggestion made in the Introduction that human beings are directed toward the impersonal as well as toward the personal. These very early manifestations of investing impersonal objects with significance are evidence that man was not born for love alone. The meaning attaching to such objects may later become invested in objects of scientific enquiry, or in any of the manifold aspects of the external world which engage adult attention.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.