Quotes About World

Chan has had the courage to subvert standard scholarly approaches to show that the very framework within which academics operate is itself an impediment to the leap of imagination required to meet the demands of our sublimely chaotic world.

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; Then you can care for all things.

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

What I was doing was making deals. With the world. I'll take care of you, you take care of me, cool?

It's soft at the end. Not just the pain, but the world.

these sensory capacities are deeply interwoven with the complexity that we know of as the world. They are a primary point of interface between me and not me. For the ecological sophistication that we call Earth to exist, those interfaces must, of necessity, be extremely sophisticated as well.

It wasn't supposed to be this way; when antibiotics were commercially introduced in 1946 they were considered to be miracle drugs and many prominent researchers and physicians loudly proclaimed the end of infectious disease—for all time—was at hand. The trouble is that the lens through which most scientists viewed the world then (as regrettably, many still do) pictured the world as an essentially static background against which human beings acted.

We can begin to directly interact with the meanings that flow into us from the world every minute of every day of our lives. Those meanings are directly related to what is happening in the world around us, in the communication between plants, the intelligence of animals, the functioning of Gaia.

Bacteria, as a group, are, in actuality, an extremely large self-organized system that covers the entire world.

You should never denigrate the form in which your perceptions arise, never think yourself less-than, if you do not use scientific metaphors. Each of us must reclaim our ability to know the world directly, deeply and well. (Any feeling of less-than is merely a symptom of the colonization of your mind.) Don't leave it in the hands of experts. That is how we got into this mess in the first place.

It makes sense: to embrace one's sapphic feelings—to come out to oneself—is necessarily to rethink the world.

Killing off mature ecosystems results in the loss of cultural learning among the world's ecosystem communities. Or as Albert Einstein once observed, "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Robert Caro, author of the (yet) unfinished monumental biography of Lyndon Baynes Johnson, has noted, "The importance of a sense of place is commonly accepted in the world of fiction. I wish that were also true about biography and history.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.

Scholars who write of Moscow facing an "uncooperative world economy" have it exactly backward.

Some wags surmised the Western powers refrained from unseating the Soviet regime to give socialists around the world more time to see the full folly of their delusions.)

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside.… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; … the weak will become a prey to the strong.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves.

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand.