Quotes on World

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The world can only change from within.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

The world is the house of the strong.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.