World Quotes - Page 349

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

My main concern is with the world order

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.