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"...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters."
"The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes."
"In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture."
"What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves."
"What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians."
"The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently."
"Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals."
"The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious."
"The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible"
"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe."
"Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!"
"It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world."
"In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth."
"There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them."
"I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me."
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living."
"When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects."
"When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain."
"You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people."
"The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place."
