Quotes on World

For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow... Heal the world.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.