- 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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020