Quotes About World

name) is an important part of the process whereby the infinitely complex world of phenomena and fact is reduced to the functional world of value. And it is continual interaction with social institutions that makes this reduction—this specification—possible.

God is dead," said Nietzsche. "God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us?

Despite the fact that the world is a very dark place, and that each of us has our black elements of soul, we see in each other a unique blend of actuality and possibility that is a kind of miracle: one that can manifest itself, truly, in the world, in the relationships we have that are grounded in trust and love.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? (Mark 8:36)

The ground of Being is subject and object simultaneously—motivation, emotion, and material thing all at once—before perception is clarified, before the world is articulated.

Nietzsche appears to have unquestioningly adopted the idea that the world was both objective and valueless in the manner posited by the emergent physical sciences.

Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it's much better evidence that our world was programmed by people much smarter than us.

Improbability, as described here, is a relative notion, not an absolute one; when we say an outcome is improbable, we are always saying, explicitly or not, that it is improbable under some set of hypotheses we've made about the underling mechanisms of the world.

The lessons of mathematics are simple ones and there are no numbers in them: that there is structure in the world; that we can hope to understand some of it and not just gape at what our senses present to us; that our intuition is stronger with a formal exoskeleton than without one. And that mathematical certainity is one thing, the softer convictions we find attached to us in everyday life another, and we should keep track of the difference if we can.

Leer siempre la había relajado. Era un privilegio. Sumergirse en una buena novela equivalía a penetrar en otro mundo, olvidar, sentir, experimentar emociones únicas.

Salvar a una niña no era como salvar el mundo?

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.

and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude, and the part of the law which is the world's waiting and the part of the law which is my waiting, and the part which is my impatience—now; now?— though there are, there really are things in the world, you must believe me.

Consider the body of the ocean which rises every instant into me, & its ancient evaporation, & how it delivers itself to me, how the world is our law, this indrifting of us into us, a chorusing in us of elements, & how the intermingling of us lacks intelligence, makes reverberation, syllables untranscribable, inclingings, & how wonder is also what pours from us…

the human heart is a refugee—is standing here always in its open market, shouting out prices, in- audible prices, & wares keep on arriving, & the voices get higher— what are you worth the map of the world is shrieking, any moment of you, what is it worth, time breaks over you and you remain, more of you, more of you, asking your questions, ravishing the visible with your inquiry, and hungry, why are you so hungry…

De financiële wereld is geen ver-van-je-bedshow. Het is het bed zelf.

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.

Sai qual è il nostro problema, in quanto europei? Che vogliamo continuare a essere noi stessi senza smettere di essere il Tutto. Pretendiamo di globalizzare la nostra individualità. Ma il mondo ha sempre meno bisogno di individui, di razze, di nazioni, di lingue. Quello di cui ha bisogno è che tutti sappiamo l'inglese e, se possibile, che siamo moderatamente liberali. Che a Babele si parli inglese e avanti la Torre, dice il mondo.

Pero siento que pese al caos político y económico, su mundo, y el mío y el tuyo, permanece siendo un mundo benigno, y tan chico que a veces me irrito. El mundo del andariego debe ser enorme, hostil, pero libre.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

El mundo o nuestra vida posible es siempre más que nuestro destino o vida efectiva

Wherever in this sublunary world philosophy is absent, there reigns somnambulism

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.

I wish to leave the worldBy its natural door;In my tomb of green leavesThey are to carry me to die.Do not put me in the darkTo die like a traitor;I am good, and like a good thingI will die with my face to the sun.