World Quotes - Page 405

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

When you are in joy you are in love with the world & the Universe is in love with you.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The world is not outside you.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

The world exists for the education of each man.