Two Worlds Quotes

• There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Spiritual, Heart

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.9

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• There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

  Ron Kauk

  Other Worlds, Two, Sacred

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• We'll build a bridge of love between two worlds.

  Pocahontas

  Love Is, Bridges, Two

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• Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

  Sivananda

  Men, Bridges, Two

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• My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

  Rumi

  Two, Soul, World

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

  Henri Matisse

  Wall, Two, Doe

  Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

  Rumi

  Two, World, Duality

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• My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Looks, Photographer, Nurture

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• Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

  William C. Dement

  Dream, Real, Opportunity

  William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”

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• Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

  David Lynch

  Past, Fire, Two

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• i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

  Emily Giffin

  Two, Decision, Balance

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.330, Macmillan

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• You can’t have two worlds in your hands
  and choose emptiness.

  Mary Szybist

  Hands, Two, World

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

  Morris West

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Reality, Two, World

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• My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Communication, Two, People

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• I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

  Patti Smith

  Wall, Thinking, Two

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Eye, Two, White

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• Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Lying, Communication, Science

  Heinrich Hertz (1896). “Miscellaneous Papers”

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• This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  War, Cutting, Two

  "The Great Dictator". www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Heart, Istanbul, Cities

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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