World Quotes - Page 745

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?