Quotes for: world
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
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
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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 wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
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
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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach
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
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
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
Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.
Martin Luther
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