- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
- Eternally
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
- Nov 07, 2020