Quotes about World

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their self-satisfaction—as it were a hidden seed of madness, a confidence that they can move the world without precise notion of standing-place or lever.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

H]e was in another sort of contemplative mood perhaps more common in the young men of our day — that of questioning whether it were worth while to take part in the battle of the world: I mean, of course, the young men in whom the unproductive labor of questioning is sustained by three or five per cent on capital which somebody else has battled for.

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.