Vilhelm Ekelund: Quotes about the world

Vilhelm Ekelund was Swedish poet. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Vilhelm Ekelund: 18 quotes0 likes

“Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them.”

Vilhelm Ekelund

Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 71

“The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the principle of genius.”

Vilhelm Ekelund

Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 22

“The noble Nazarene … who raged against "the world," against the philistinism, the halfheartedness, the lack of ideals—if he had guessed that he was forging a weapon for the hands of exactly "this world"—he who sensed the misfortune of humanity so deeply that he didn't find any other solution to its enigma than to entirely reject and turn his back on all that is earthly, would see his name dragged into the service of an intense philistine optimism.”

Vilhelm Ekelund

Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 21