“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
“The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.”
“For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.”
“The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, Though by a different path each goes astray.”
“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.”
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.''”
“We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.”
“The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.”
“Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.”
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”
“That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.”
“Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.”
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.”
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
“The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
“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.”
“Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?”
“The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.”
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
“The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.”
“The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!”
“I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”
“I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''”
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”