“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes

“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”
Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10

Part 3: "The Sense of Human Dignity", §1 (p. 52)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
Context: No fact in the world is instant, infinitesimal and ultimate, a single mark. There are, I hold, no atomic facts. In the language of science, every fact is a field — a crisscross of implications, those that lead to it and those that lead from it. … We condense the laws around concepts. Science takes its coherence, its intellectual and imaginative strength together, from the concepts at which its laws cross, like knots in a mesh.

Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays' Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
1780s

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”

“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing