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Quotes About World

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
~ John McAfee
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
~ Clarence Darrow
The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
~ Franz Kafka
By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.
~ Fulgentius of Cartagena
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
~ George Eliot
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
~ Ludwig von Mises
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.
~ Michael Fox
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
~ Plato
A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!
~ Ono no Komachi
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
~ Oriana Fallaci
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.
~ Richard Hovey
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
~ Bernie Mac
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
~ Madame de Stael