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World Quotes - Page 401

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1952). “Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development”

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.198, Wipf and Stock Publishers

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.117, Oxford University Press

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.290, ReadHowYouWant.com

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.19, Penguin