Quotes About World

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR

The world of sin faces the world of grace like the reflected image of a landscape on the edge of a dark, deep stretch of water.

The hour is coming when, on the ruins of the old Christian order, a new order will be born that will indeed be an order of the world, the order of the Prince of this World, of that prince whose kingdom is of this world. And the hard law of necessity, stronger than any illusions, will then remove the very object for clerical pride so long maintained simply by conventions outlasting any belief. And the footsteps of beggars shall cause the earth to tremble once again.

Joy is in the gift of the Church; whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share. Whatever you did against the Church, has been done against joy. I'm not stopping you from calculating the procession of the equinoxes or splitting the atom. But what would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…. Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

He believed that everything and everybody in the world was worthy of notice but this person beside him was something beyond that. To him her presence was as important as the world. And the stars around it. If she was an instance of the goodness in this world then passing through by her was miracle enough.

its normal pace, even with the threat of a gale. How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea? It is all of life that I contemplate—sun, clouds, time that passes and abides. Occasionally it is also that other world, foreign now, that I left centuries ago. The modern, artificial world where man has been turned into a money-making machine to satisfy false needs, false joys.

Si elle ne s'était pas évadée de leur monde, elle serait amorphe et fainéante comme un Doigt. Car, elle l'avait vu à la télévision, les Doigts sont toujours partisans du moindre effort. [...] Comme le dit bien un adage myrmécéen : la fonction fait l'organe, mais l'absence de fonction défait l'organe.

who loves to immerse herself in a universe where fiscal cells split off to create gazillions of replicas of themselves spinning off into beautiful infinity the glittering stars of wealth that make the world go around

To be honest, it felt so distant from us, we din't give it much thought. Our world was made up of our immediate neighbours and foreign meant the people of the midlands or fenlands.

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The En Soph, not being an object of cognition, made his existence known in the creation of the world by means of attributes or mediums, the ten Sephiroth, or intelligences, radiations, emanations, emanating from the En Soph, and which in their totality represent and are called the Adam Kadmon, the "Primordial or Archetypal Man.

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

tired of status quo politics and wanted real change in the world in which they were living.

its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

Love it the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!

In fondo alla Moldava vanno le pietre, / sepolti a Praga riposano tre re. / A questo mondo niente rimane uguale, / la notte più lunga eterna non è/

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.