World Quotes - Page 611

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.