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This World Quotes by Plato
- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings…
- The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this…
- This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila