“We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.”
Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author
Source: The Little Man in The Tower
“We live in a world we ourselves create.”
Wir leben immer in einer Welt, die wir uns selbst bilden.
Übers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele (1774); cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 8, p. 252. Translation from Roy Pascal The German Sturm und Drang (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1959) p. 136
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