Quotes on This World

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.