- Creative
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public influence is the real government of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020