World Quotes
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world.
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.
Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
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?
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
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.
I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.
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.
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.
What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!