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| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase | | Victor Hugo | |
| It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. | | Arthur C. Clarke | |
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| Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe | | Christopher Morley | |
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| My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature | | Albert Einstein | |
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| No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .. | | Isaac Asimov | |
| Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g | | Albert Einstein | |
| Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters like mine, for instance. I care as little for the world's opinion as that man cared for what was right. To appear right was enough for him; what I th | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. | | Moliere | |
| One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. | | Albert Einstein | |
| People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time | | Norman Cousins | |
| Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind | | Giacomo Leopardi | |
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| The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it | | Bible | |
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| The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind | | John Stuart Mill | |
