Other Worlds Quotes
230 quotes by 140 authors
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
— Abraham Cahan
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy…
— James Cameron
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our…
— Red Cloud
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it…
— Andrew Marvell
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
— Immanuel Kant
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And…
— Albert Claude
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
— Denis Diderot
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
— Charles Lamb
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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
— Kim Edwards
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When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of…
— Rajneesh
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Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It…
— Rajneesh
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[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my…
— Pete Conrad
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in…
— Plutarch
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Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other…
— Robert Breault
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We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people…
— Hermann Oberth
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Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start…
— Philippe Petit
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The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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