Quotes for: world

Quotes for: world

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary

We admire the world through what we love.
Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn

It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Immanuel Kant

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
Blaise Pascal

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
Wilhelm von Humboldt ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - The Game of Love and Chance

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

The heart is the key of the world and of life.
Novalis

The heart is the key of the world and of life.

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

All the world's a stage.
William Shakespeare - As you like it

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

The world and life are one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
Voltaire

My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal

Like the disputes of lovers are the dissonances of the world. Reconciliation is there, even in the midst of strife, and all that is parted finds itself united again.
Friedrich Hölderlin

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The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

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Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.
M. C. Escher