World Quotes

• "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
  By: Hermann Hesse
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• "We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."
  By: Alexander Herzen
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• "There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."
  By: Alexander Herzen
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• "No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."
  By: Alexander Herzen
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• "Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself."
  By: Johann Gottfried Von Herder
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• "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world."
  By: Heinrich Heine
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• "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
  By: Georg Hegel
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• "The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy."
  By: Georg Hegel
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• "As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is."
  By: Georg Hegel
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• "Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational."
  By: Hegel
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• "In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world."
  By: Ben Hecht
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• "If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
  By: William Hazlitt
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• "Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?"
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."
  By: Vaclav Havel
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• "The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."
  By: Vaclav Havel
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