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«Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal»
«Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind»
«So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first»
«Peace at home, peace in the world»
«Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.»
«Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Joy,
World
| Keywords:
cure, joyfully, participate, participated, participates, participating, sorrows
«Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
flexibility, manners, oil, suppleness
«People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Thinking,
World
| Keywords:
fulfilling, In Our Time, sanity
«Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Work,
World
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
abounding, grants, scope
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