Quotes About World

E para de falar porque volta a descobrir uma verdade universal que esquece todos os dias quando se deita. O mundo é conduzido por medíocres, egoístas e idiotas. Sobretudo estes últimos

Luego se detiene, pues vuelve a descubrir una verdad universal que olvida cada día cuando se acuesta. El mundo está manejado por los mediocres, los egoístas y los idiotas. Muy especialmente estos últimos.

Seguirán sin comprender, seguirán hablando de caprichos de la vida, de avatares de la fortuna o del destino de la persona. No sabe que es absurdo hablar del destino sin relacionarlo con la naturaleza social del mundo en el que uno vive

Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

after a time, one finds that the heart is simply not meant to pound all the time. The world couldn't go on. Regular rhythms are best. Look at nature.

while probabilities encode our beliefs about a static world, causality tells us whether and how probabilities change when the world changes, be it by intervention or by act of imagination.

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

He had left off being a perfectionist then, when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean, not membership in Onwentsia, or the Lake Forest Golf and Country Club, or the Lawyers' Club, not power, or knowledge, or goodness - not anything - cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.

optimism of his class. It was a world not unlike the one Edwin Hall had provided for his family. Yet Roosevelt was able to sympathize with the downtrodden and meant

When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

The gradually growing hegemony of the eye seems to be parallel with the development of Western ego-consciousness and the gradually increasing separation of the self and the world; vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.

the poet speaks not only 'on the threshold of being', as Gaston Bachelard notes,43 but also on the threshold of language. Equally, the task of art and architecture in general is to reconstruct the experience of an undifferentiated interior world, in which we are not mere spectators, but to which we inseparably belong.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

any given system is as good as the next. First, we call it Christianity, then democracy, and now we call it the Method. Always claiming an absolute truth, always wanting absolute Good, and always foisting itself on the rest of the world. It's all religion.

Jenseits von jugendlichen Leidenschaften begegnete man der Welt am besten mit gut gekühltem Pragmatismus.

Parmenides and Zeno became famous for arguments which apparently cannot be refuted but which reach conclusions impossible to accept. These arguments provoke a crisis in philosophical accounts of the world; responses to it can be found in the cosmologies of Anaxagoras, Empedocles and the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus.

Look around us in this world, how it suffers!

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Geniul" este o invenÅ£ie terapeutic? ce ne împiedic? s? murim de egalitate într-o lume f?r? via?? de apoi.

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.