My World Quotes

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

We must learn to see the world anew.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world.

I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.

The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.