“This world belongs to the energetic.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar

“Letter to R. T. Eubanks, January 19, 1961, p. 56.
Language is Sermonic (1970)

“Data itself can be thought of as an energetic phenomenon that links us in our capacity as knowing subjects to an external physical world.”

Max Boisot (1943–2011) British academic and educator

Source: Information Space, 1995, p. 22

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by short people. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

“Where you are in your own energetic vibration will dictate what foods you choose, and how you think and see the world.”

Ralph Smart

“Monkey opera is not belonging to the Zhang family, it belongs to China and the whole world.”

Liu Xiao Ling Tong (1959) Chinese actor

(zh-CN) 猴戏不姓章，属于中国，也属于世界。

Source: [六小龄童回故乡讲座诠释对“章氏猴戏”情感, http://ent.people.com.cn/GB/n1/2018/0928/c81372-30319084.html, People's Daily Online, 11 January 2019, 28 September 2018]

“The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

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Original German: Das Subjekt gehört nicht zur Welt, sondern es ist eine Grenze der Welt.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

“It is enigma enough that the world is described by mathematics; but by simple mathematics, of the sort that a few years energetic study now produces familiarity with, this is an enigma within an enigma.”

John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist

New Theories of Everything (2007)
Context: Scanning the past millennia of human achievement reveals just how much has been achieved during the last three hundred years since Newton set in motion the effective mathematization of Nature. We found that the world is curiously adapted to a simple mathematical description. It is enigma enough that the world is described by mathematics; but by simple mathematics, of the sort that a few years energetic study now produces familiarity with, this is an enigma within an enigma.<!--Ch. 1, p. 2

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

Henry De Montherlant (1895–1972) French writer

“The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 53.

“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”

William McFee (1881–1966) American writer

Book I: The Suburb, Ch. XIII
Casuals of the Sea (1916)

“This world belongs to the energetic.”

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