This World Quotes - Page 33

• I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Nice, People, Evil

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• Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  World, Causes, Indivisible

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• If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Queens, Artist

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• The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Kindness, Heart, Judging People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Cynical, Being Positive

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• We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.

  Kate Bornstein

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Gender Outlaws". Interview with Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni and Mariette Pathy Allen, www.gendertalk.com.

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• Who designed this world we live in?

  Midge Ure

  World

  Song: Hell To Heaven, Album: Answers to Nothing

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• "All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, World, Way

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• Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.

  Fanny Crosby

  Blessing, People, Soul

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.24, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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• Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

  Josiah Royce

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Perfect, World

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.

  Deepak Chopra

  Independent, Opposites, Forever

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• It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  World, Have Faith, Worldliness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

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• Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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• I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!

  Jeremy Irvine

  Mom, Good Friend, Thinking

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

  Torquil Campbell

  Dog, Kindness, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Political, Important

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• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Teaching, Perfection, Alive

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• I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Long, Dying

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• All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Men, Solitude, World

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• The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Atheist, People, Doubt

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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