"There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying."
Read quote
6 likes
World quotes
World
26.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to World
Browse quotes that often appear alongside world — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
World quotes (page 177 of 1309)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world."
Read quote
6 likes
"I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds."
Read quote
6 likes
"It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale."
Read quote
6 likes
"Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."
Read quote
6 likes
"The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception."
Read quote
6 likes
"We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them."
Read quote
6 likes
"Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics."
Read quote
6 likes
"It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world."
Read quote
6 likes
"In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought."
Read quote
6 likes
"This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings."
Read quote
6 likes
"I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both."
Read quote
6 likes
"To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme."
Read quote
6 likes
"A single soul is richer than all the worlds."
Read quote
6 likes
"Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over."
Read quote
6 likes
"The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world."
Read quote
6 likes
"Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms"
Read quote
6 likes
"The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift."
Read quote
6 likes
"I learned a world from each / one whom I loved"
Read quote
6 likes
"An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)"
Read quote
6 likes