Our World Quotes - Page 22

• Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Suffering, Normal

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Loss, Afterlife

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Faith, Fear, Littles

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• Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms
  And flames laid waste our world,
  All that was left me was a little garden
  And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Garden, Flames

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Discovery

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• Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

  Astro Teller

  Science, Intelligent, Winning

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• There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent responses from some people, because only in Christianity is there an absolute right and wrong. People hate the Bible and Christianity because of the law of God.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Hate

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Reality, Views, Common

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• Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.

  Bernard Beckett

  Men, Different, Quests

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• Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

  Richard Matheson

  Profound, Survival, Danger

  Richard Matheson (1999). “The Path: A New Look At Reality”, p.14, Macmillan

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Eye, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, Empowering, Intellectual

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

  David Weinberger

  Dream, Passion, Needs

  David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

  Maureen Howard

  Moving, Book, New Beginnings

  "Notable American Women". Book by Ben Marcuso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. March 19, 2002.

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• I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

  Brandi Carlile

  Country, Issues, Rocks

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• The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

  James T. Hubbell

  Art, Way, Foundation

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

  Tony Blair

  Evil, Today, Terrorism

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Way, Made, Playing God

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• I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

  Francoise Hardy

  Book, Forget Everything, Bed

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• It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Dark, Moon, Views

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

  Alex Haley

  Wisdom, Exercise, Fate

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Essence, Ideas, Roots

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Names, Giving

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