Appearance Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the…

— Socrates

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

— Archibald MacLeish

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how…

— Gerald Edelman

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

— Erwin Schrodinger

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of…

— Ernst Haeckel

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries…

— Albert Einstein

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

— Michel de Montaigne

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

— Langston Hughes