Quotes about the world
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“When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Love

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

Virginia Euwer Wolff book Make Lemonade

Source: Make Lemonade

Hurt

“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Soul, Imagination

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on…”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Judy McAden, Chapter 26, p. 314
Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000)

Love

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.”

Cameron Crowe (1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director

Variant: The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.
Source: Almost Famous

“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Ever since sentences started to circulate in brains devoted to reflection, an effort at total identification has been made, because with the aid of a copula each sentence ties one thing to another; all things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.
But the copula of terms is no less irritating than the copulation of bodies. And when I scream I AM THE SUN an integral erection results, because the verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.
Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime.”

Georges Bataille book The Solar Anus

The Solar Anus (1927)

Life, Effort, Water, Sun

“Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called… duct tape.”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Boy, Kiss

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Mountain

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

20 December 1822
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

Hell

“If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

Peaceful

“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V.
It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”

Sharon M. Draper book Out of My Mind

Source: Out of My Mind

Family

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 2

“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Variant: It takes all sorts to make a world.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4
Context: The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Indifference

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173 Differing versions of such a statement are attributed to conversations as early as 1948 (e.g. The Rotarian, 72 (6), June 1948, p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=0UMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9: "I don't know. But I can tell you what they'll use in the fourth. They'll use rocks!"). Another variant ("I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones") is attributed to an unidentified letter to Harry S. Truman in "The culture of Einstein" by Alex Johnson http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/, MSNBC, (18 April 2005). However, prior to 1948 very similar quotes were attributed in various articles to an unnamed army lieutenant, as discussed at Quote Investigator : "The Futuristic Weapons of WW3 Are Unknown, But WW4 Will Be Fought With Stones and Spears" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/16/future-weapons/#more-679. The earliest found was from “Quote and Unquote: Raising ‘Alarmist’ Cry Brings a Winchell Reply” by Walter Winchell, in the Wisconsin State Journal (23 September 1946), p. 6, Col. 3. In this article Winchell wrote: <blockquote> Joe Laitin reports that reporters at Bikini were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war. “I dunno,” he said, “but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they’ll be using spears!” </blockquote> : It seems plausible, therefore, that Einstein may have been quoting or paraphrasing an expression which he had heard or read elsewhere. 1940s Variant: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

War, Peaceful

“It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?
The world's a lot bigger than I am.”

Liz Kessler (1966) British children's writer

Source: Read Me Like a Book

“Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Personality

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

People, Art, Time

“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Imagination

“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Understanding, Question, Cry

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“Build therefore your own world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Hope, Feeling, Heart, Hurt

“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) British composer

Love, Pain, Change

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

People, Fear

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

Suicide

“There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Novelist, librarian, nurse

Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories

Thinking

“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

Dead

“I can smell you,” he groaned against her ear as he ran his fangs up her throat. “The most beautiful thing in the world—except for your taste.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

Beauty

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them… to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

Horton Foote (1916–2009) American playwright and screenwriter

Life, People

“This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Life, Christmas

“When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings… As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Life

“and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Love, Dependency

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Girl, Heart

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”

David Almond book My Name Is Mina

Source: My Name Is Mina

Sleep, Night

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Music

“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Nature

“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

Source: The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry

Love, Soul

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Water

“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

Love, Stupidity

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Question, Time

“In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

Life, Death, War, Time

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Victory

“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Painting

“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Waiting, Personality

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Source: Innocence

Life, People, Books

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Deep, Friendship, Relationship, For Friend

“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

Books

“He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Angelica

Support

“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Lyra to Pan in Ch. 38 : The Botanic Garden
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Context: "I remember. He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."
"He said we had to build something…"
"That’s why we needed our full life, Pan... we wouldn’t have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves first. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we’ve got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we’ll build…"

Life

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: The Unquiet

People, Heart

“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“… whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener

Happiness, Light

“Cats are cats… the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author

Source: The Cat Who Saw Stars

Love, Hate, Peace, Intelligence

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

“He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Fear, Soul

“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Dependency

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Part Three, Ch. 11
Source: On the Road (1957)
Context: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

Men

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”

Laura Bush (1946) First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009

As quoted in The 21st Century Elementary Library Media Program (2009) by Carl A. Harvey, p. 3

Children, Question, Learning

“A poet's work… to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

Fraud, Sleep

“You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.”

Alasdair Gray book Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Source: Lanark

Thinking, Suffering, Change

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Home

“If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”

Jane Espenson (1964) American television writer and producer

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”

Raymond E. Feist book Krondor: The Betrayal

Source: Krondor: The Betrayal

Dreams

“Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

“What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.”

Iris Murdoch book The Sea, the Sea

Source: The Sea, the Sea

Way, Soul

“Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Girl, Tear

“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.”

Gary Zukav (1942) American writer and revivalist

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”

Audre Lorde book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Source: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Understanding, Thinking

“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Sadness, Madness

“Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

Life, Pain, Change, Hurt

“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”

Nevil Shute book On the Beach

Source: On the Beach

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life, Literature, Sense, Reading

“Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Joyful Girl
Song lyrics

“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

Peter Marshall (1902–1949) American preacher

People, Indifference

“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

Source: Pussy, King of the Pirates

Death

“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

Love, Reality, Learning

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Color, Nature, Change

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love

“Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

Men, Law

“The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.”

James E. Talmage (1862–1933) American Mormon leader

Source: Jesus the Christ

Christ

“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Family

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Communication

“Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail. com.”

Douglas Coupland book Generation A

Source: Generation A

People, Books

“It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Faith, Madness

“I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Feeling, Forgetting

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love

“We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

Effort

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Letter to Besso's family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 "A Distant Mirror", p. 193 Sometimes misquoted as "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." 1950s Variant: "He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2008), p. 540 http://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q&f=false. Variant: "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Quoted in Albert Einstein: The Miracle Mind by Tabatha Yeatts (2007), p. 116 http://books.google.com/books?id=XiyyVYvQBKQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT114#v=onepage&q&f=false. Variant: "In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious." Quoted in The Structure of Physics by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1985), p. 288 http://books.google.com/books?id=DeexONN0zDgC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA288#v=onepage&q&f=false. Variant: "Now he has departed a little ahead of me from this quaint world. This means nothing. For us faithful physicists, the separation between past, present, and future has only the meaning of an illusion, though a persistent one." Quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (2002), p. 161 http://books.google.com/books?id=TnCc1f1C25IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA161#v=onepage&q&f=false. Variant: "Now he has preceded me by a little bit in his departure from this strange world as well. This means nothing. For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious this illusion may be." Quoted in Einstein: A Biography by Jürgen Neff (2007), p. 402 http://books.google.com/books?id=B8K6n177ZwcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA402#v=onepage&q&f=false

People, Past, Future

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

Michael Crichton book State of Fear

Source: State of Fear

People, Problem

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