- Love
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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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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
- Nationalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
- Albeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020