Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
—Oscar Wilde
You have nothing to fear from the machinations of those people who belong to a deceitful and vain world. They can’t reach a beautiful bird soaring in the sky. What’s her name? Is it truth? Love? Eternity? Yes, eternity. The bustling world can’t keep up with eternity, it better see it doesn’t lose itself!
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.
—John Wesley
There are people who take upon themselves the right to decide for others what their relationship to God and the world should be, and there are people—the vast majority—who give this right to others and blindly believe what they say. Both are equally guilty and pathetic.
—Leo Tolstoy
All has gone to rest, and I don’t know whether I’m alive or will live or whether I’m rushing like this through the world for I’m not longer weeping or laughing.
—Taras Shevchenko
When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. – C.S. Lewis
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
“You may preach up the anger of God, and the terrors of the world to come, but these do not melt the heart to loyal obedience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
—Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
—Carl Jung
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
—George Orwell
While we are settling the date of Jesus’ birth, the world is doing without its Christmas message.
—J. Gresham Machen
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
—Thomas Jefferson
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
—Henry Ford
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
—Sigmund Freud
The world is as it is today because sin being what it is, and God being what and who he is, it will inevitably be punished.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.
—John Newton
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
—Oscar Wilde
The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
—Georg Hegel
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
—Ernest Hemingway
When we bring the Church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing all the while and grieving the Spirit of God.
—D. L. Moody
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
—Franz Kafka
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
—Voltaire
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
—Nikolai Gogol