World Quotes - Page 274

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.