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Quotes about the world




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






The world is nothing but variety and dissimilarity.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.
Martin Luther / 






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.
Edmund Husserl / 






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






A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts / 






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 / 






The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The School for Wives / 






The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.
Hans Christian Andersen / 






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.
Richard Phillips Feynman






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.
Paulo Coelho / 






Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelho






When a woman learned to read, the woman question arose in the world.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 






The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 






This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau ? - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust






We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama






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.
Henry David Thoreau






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.
Bertrand Russell






The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich Schiller / 






The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine of Hippo






One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare






In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi






Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde






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.
Mahatma Gandhi






I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice / 






A systematic revolution of basic concepts begins with Einsteinian science. In the very detail of its concepts a relativism of the rational and the empirical is established. Science then undergoes what Nietzsche called 'an upheaval of concepts,' as if the earth, the universe, things, possessed a different structure from the fact that their explanation rests upon new foundations. All rational organization is 'shaken' when the fundamental concepts undergo dialectical transformation.
Gaston Bachelard / 






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