“If the devil was really the master of the world, we would be dead before we knew it. He is also a citizen of the world, just like us.”
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Mwanandeke Kindembo 1044
Congolese author 1996Related quotes
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Book 3, § 18.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana
The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937).
1930s
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 -->
Context: The world presents itself in two ways to me. The world as a thing I own, the world as a mystery I face. What I own is a trifle, what I face is sublime. I am careful not to waste what I own; I must learn not to miss what I face.
We manipulate what is available on the surface of the world; we must also stand in awe before the mystery of the world. We objectify Being but we also are present at Being in wonder, in radical amazement.
All we have is a sense of awe and radical amazement in the face of a mystery that staggers our ability to sense it.
1910s, The World Movement (1910)
Context: Each people can do justice to itself only if it does justice to others; but each people can do its part in the world movement for all only if it first does its duty within its own household. The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.
As quoted in The Observer (30 January 1983)
