World Quotes - Page 820

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world.

Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.

The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world - but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.