Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

George Bernard Shaw

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

George Bernard Shaw

Syllables govern the world.

George Bernard Shaw

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

George Bernard Shaw

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Gelett Burgess

To take the world as one finds it

Gary Larson

The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!

Fredric Jameson

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Frederick William Faber

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

Freeman Dyson

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

Franz Kafka

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

Franz Kafka

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Franz Kafka

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

Franz Kafka

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...

Franz Kafka

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Erich Maria Remarque

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

Erich Fromm

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

Bernie Sanders

I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?

Bernie Sanders

The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.

Bernie Sanders

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Buchi Emecheta

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Bruno Mars

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

James Hetfield

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

James Hillman

Each person enters the world called.