World Quotes - Page 923

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

My heart holds the world in tender awe.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.