We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
Mine, against which however in its risings I struggle, and which I strive to suppress, is a sadly depraved appetite, rooted in an inordinate love of this world.
—William Wilberforce
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
World history is a court of judgment
—Georg Hegel
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
—Heraclitus
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
—Immanuel Kant
The generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevoured, merely on the account of the intercession of the Lord Jesus.
—John Owen
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
—Immanuel Kant
Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
—Plato
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
—Søren Kierkegaard
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
—Søren Kierkegaard
If a man is full of the Holy Spirit, then there is no room for the world, there is no room for self.
—D. L. Moody
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.
—Søren Kierkegaard
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
—Miyamoto Musashi
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
—Henry Ford