World Quotes
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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.
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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home.
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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.
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The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
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I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
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Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
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Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.
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In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
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By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
