Quotes About World

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?

In the state he's in, my child, your love is of no use to him—the whole world might love him and to him it would be of no use. Alas, if only men could love not with half their heart but with the whole heart God has given us, then no one would deserve to die. But as you see, no one is immortal, and that is how the world goes around.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

You think a moment is but a small speck, by it encapsulates an entire world.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Don't teach children about wealth, but teach them about love and kindness, then they'll change the world.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking and swearing, any other than braying?

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Go, Soul, the body's quest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best,The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.

If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee, and be thy love.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets...

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O

His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.

But mixing is the way of the world. The world passes through us - food, books, pictures, other people.

Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language.