“All the world's not a stage.”
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 94
Minima Moralia (1951)
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German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for … 1903–1969Related quotes
“If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?”
“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.; "The world ’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill", Thomas Heywood, Apology for Actors (1612).
“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
“Seeing in our astral system many thousands of worlds in all stages of formation”
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 20
Context: Seeing in our astral system many thousands of worlds in all stages of formation, from the most rudimental to that immediately preceding the present condition of those we deem perfect, it is unavoidable to conclude that all the perfect have gone through the various stages which we see in the rudimental. This leads us at once to the conclusion that the whole of our firmament was at one time a diffused mass of nebulous matter, extending through the space which it still occupies. So also, of course, must have been the other astral systems. Indeed, we must presume the whole to have been originally in one connected mass, the astral systems being only the first division into parts, and solar systems the second.
