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| Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author: Carlyle, ThomasEra: 1795 |
| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author: Moore, ThomasEra: 1779 |
| (The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. -- James A. Garfield |
| Author: Garfield, James A.Era: 1831 |
| There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author: Napoleon IEra: 1769 |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856 |
| Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. -- Sankara |
| Author: SankaraEra: 900 |
| A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. -- Manly P. Hall |
| Author: Hall, Manly P.Era: 1901 |
| To see a world in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -- William Blake |
| Author: Blake, WilliamEra: 1757 |
| The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein |
| Author: Einstein, AlbertEra: 1879 |
| God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. -- Nicholas Berdyaev |
| Author: Berdyaev, NicholasEra: 1874 |
| There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. -- Italian Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ItalianEra: 0 |
| The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author: Moore, ThomasEra: 1779 |
| Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author: Bailey, GamalielEra: 1816 |
| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- James L. Allen |
| Author: Allen, James L.Era: 1849 |
| We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world. -- Mark Twain |
| Author: Twain, MarkEra: 1835 |
| Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world. -- The Talmud |
| Author: Talmud, TheEra: -500 |
| Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith |
| Author: Smith, AdamEra: 1723 |
| The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer |
| Author: Spencer, HerbertEra: 1820 |
| The world is but a perpetual see-saw. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author: Montaigne, Michel DeEra: 1533 |
| The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Author: Hawthorne, NathanielEra: 1804 |
| One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a world in miniature. -- Nathan |
| Author: NathanEra: 200 |
| The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. -- John Ruskin |
| Author: Ruskin, JohnEra: 1819 |
| Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede. -- Charles Swain |
| Author: Swain, CharlesEra: 1803 |
| Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality. -- Upanishads |
| Author: UpanishadsEra: -800 |
| There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Every soul is subject to the trial of Transmigration...An individual does not know that he is called for assessment before entering this world as well as after leaving it. He does not know how many transformations and esoteric trials he has to pass through...and that souls revolve like a stone shot from a sling. -- Zohar |
| Author: ZoharEra: 120 |
| The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. -- Buddha |
| Author: BuddhaEra: -568 |
| world's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. -- Elizabeth B. Browning |
| Author: Browning, Elizabeth B.Era: 1806 |
| Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. -- Stuart Chase |
| Author: Chase, StuartEra: 1888 |
| Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -- Socrates |
| Author: SocratesEra: -469 |
| One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world. -- Ibn Al-'Arabi |
| Author: Al-'Arabi, IbnEra: 1165 |
| The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. -- Zohar |
| Author: ZoharEra: 120 |
| The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author: Huxley, Thomas H.Era: 1825 |
| Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author: Chesterfield, LordEra: 1694 |
| There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. -- Frederick Faber |
| Author: Faber, FrederickEra: 1814 |
| The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. -- Havelock Ellis |
| Author: Ellis, HavelockEra: 1859 |
| All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author: Tennyson, Alfred LordEra: 1809 |
| The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
| Author: La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra: 1613 |
| ...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities. -- Book of Dzyan |
| Author: Book of DzyanEra: -3000 |
| The study of oneself must go side by side with the study of the fundamental laws of the universe. The laws are the same everywhere and on all planes. But the very same laws manifesting themselves in different worlds, that is, under different conditions, produce different phenomena. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply. -- Kabbalah |
| Author: KabbalahEra: -1200 |
| worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton |
| Author: Burton, RobertEra: 1576 |
| The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. -- Owen Feltham |
| Author: Feltham, OwenEra: 1602 |
| The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. -- Rudyard Kipling |
| Author: Kipling, RudyardEra: 1865 |
| There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. -- Gerald Massey |
| Author: Massey, GeraldEra: 1828 |
| If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance. -- William S. Gilbert |
| Author: Gilbert, William S.Era: 1540 |
| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author: Wilde, OscarEra: 1854 |
| Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. -- The Talmud |
| Author: Talmud, TheEra: -500 |
| The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again. -- Charles Kingsley |
| Author: Kingsley, CharlesEra: 1819 |
| The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. -- Joseph Addison |
| Author: Addison, JosephEra: 1672 |
| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -- Virginia Woolf |
| Author: Woolf, VirginiaEra: 1882 |
| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author: Heine, HeinrichEra: 1797 |
| Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. -- Hare & Charles |
| Author: Hare and CharlesEra: 1830 |
| What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. -- Bruce Barton |
| Author: Barton, BruceEra: 1886 |
| If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. -- Albert Einstein |
| Author: Einstein, AlbertEra: 1879 |
| Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author: Sartre, Jean-PaulEra: 1905 |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author: NagarjunaEra: 100 |
| The Universe, which is the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The Universe, which is the Thought of God pronounced,never was not, since God never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the Universe itself is infinite and eternal, because God Is, Was, and Will forever Be, and never did not think and create. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
| Syllables govern the world. -- John Selden |
| Author: Selden, JohnEra: 1584 |
| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. -- Francis Palgrave |
| Author: Palgrave, FrancisEra: 1824 |
| The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it. -- Karl Marx |
| Author: Marx, KarlEra: 1818 |
| Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. -- Albert Pike |
| Author: Pike, AlbertEra: 1809 |
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