World Quotes - Page 334

The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We live in a divine world.

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.'

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.

I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?