"I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”."
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"The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself."
"Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning."
"Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people."
"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"
"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist."
"The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge."
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
"One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly."
"A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded."
"It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest."
"The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself."
"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all."
"The world makes room for passionate people."
"Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us."
"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
"The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it."
"You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world."
"That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it."
"The world is nothing but a big gimmick."