World Quotes - Page 826

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Build therefore your own world.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.