The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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.
The world is everything that is the case.
The world is nothing but variety and dissimilarity.
Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.
The business of a philosopher is not to change the world but to understand it.
I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
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.
We are all bewitched by words. We confuse them with the real world, and try to live in the real world as if it were the world of words.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
When a woman learned to read, the woman question arose in the world.
The world is independent of my will.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
