Quotes About World

He who cannot evolve a world within his own soul needs the external world to evolve his soul.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Boredom lies in our character, not in the world. "If you're bored," I've heard it said, "you're boring." Think about this. When you're bored, you tend to bore others. Conversely, when you're bored, it is because you are boring: you are the one who engages in the act of boring. It's not the world that is boring you, it is you who are boring the world.

Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.

Les Français adorent donner, en levant un index vertueux, des leçons de morale au monde

El hombre se hizo para el mundo, y no el mundo para el hombre.

His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.

If all the world is a stage, then acting, allowing ourselves to be touched by the experiences of others, is the means by which the world can become connected in understanding and love

Activity is not productive; it is the tool-and-result-ish, ontological-dialectical unity of a post-postmodern world.

If, as I believe, natural regrowth has to be the basis for the renaissance of the world's trees, then the custodians of that process must be the people who live in, among and from them.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Farslayer howls across the world For thy heart! For thy heart! who hast wronged me, Vengeance is his who casts the Blade, Yet he will, in the end, no triumph see.

Don't be bloody stupid, Achille. The whole world's in chaos, God's got better things to do than chuck stones at Pascaline.

The modern principle of representation – that each individual should participate in the state – grew out of the forests of Germany and will eventually dominate the entire modern world (VD I, 533/203).

The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose but creating mischief.

They were all copies of originals made by the British Admiralty, and the best in the world.

But the up-front reason is that he was reclaiming rightful Iraqi territory. Look, it happens all over the world. India took Goa, China took Tibet, Indonesia has taken East Timor. Argentina tried for the Falklands. Each time, the claim is retaking a chunk of rightful territory. It's very popular with the home crowd, you know.

Rightly considered, kindness is the grand cause of God in the world. Where it is natural, it must forthwith be super-naturalized. Where it is not natural, it must be supernaturally planted. What is the purpose our life? It is a mission to go into every corner it can reach, and reconquer for God's beatitude His unhappy world back to Him.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.