World Quotes - Page 309

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.

I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

So what if I cant spell Armageddon, its not the end of the world.