World Quotes

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.