World Quotes - Page 940

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

The world is full of contradiction.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

I think one big reason why Sweden might have a good reputation around the world is that if you look at Norway or Denmark or Finland, any of the Scandinavian countries, they all seem less interested in being a part of the larger world, where Sweden has always tried to reach out, whether it's with Volvos, Saabs, H&Ms, music, clothes.