World Quotes
Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is 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.
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