- People
- |
- 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
- Daily Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
- Political
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
- Negative
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
- Criticism
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
- Magic
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.
- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I just entered the wonderful world of 40s, so anything anti-aging, I'm jumping on.
- Ale
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020