Quotes About World

To be afraid is the condition of loving knowledge. Were I not dying of fear, I'd not know how to exist myself, I wouldn't get the notices of existence, I wouldn't record with delight the miniscule passage of a blue tit, its wing dipped in gold on the dusk. Were I not dying of sorrow I wouldn't with nostalgia be present at the creation of the world, the squirrel nuptials this morning I wouldn't care. Creatures are born to a backdrop of adieux.

In woman, personal history blends together with the history of all women, as well as national and world history. As a militant, she is an integral part of all liberations.

Mira, Agustín: el más miserable, el más ignorante de nuestros pobres negros subsistirá después de quedar el mundo reducido a la nada. Su alma es inmortal como Dios.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

the laws of Newton, appropriate tools for a clockmaker deity who could create a world and set it running for eternity.

However complex a given state of the world may be, the difference between that state of the world and some alternative state of the world may be caused by something extremely simple

Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.

the recognition that human language has limits, that people choose concepts that correspond only faintly to things in the real world, like the shadows of ghosts.

My practice tells me I can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Moreover, it tells me that to place neurosis and psychopathology solely in personal reality is a delusional repression of what is actually, realistically, being experienced

those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world.

It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.

Without thought or knowledge, one could have guessed that this bleak world was mountain-high, and that the mountains rising from it were mountains on top of mountains. A range of them gleamed on a far horizon like a row of dogteeth.

Chang bowed his thanks for the information. He took a keen interest in languages and liked to weigh a new word philosophically. "It is significant," he said after a pause, "that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

It is significant, he said after a pause, that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it be better if more people were slackers?

Love simply is." "Looking at beauty in the world and an understanding of life that fills you with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern for others.

The problem with the world today is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

Show the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy.

I left yesterday behind me, all I wanted was to change the world. Today I am changing me.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the worlds obligation to tiptoe around you.

Do what you feel in your heart. Change the world and be absolutely you.

I love you because... I want the world to know how beautiful you are my world.

I love you because... I want the world to know how beautiful you are in my world.

What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.

Yet it is clear that we cannot choose not to choose, for not choosing is a choice from which consequences flow, and the inner split between soul and world widens.