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O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!
(Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. Athenaeum (London, Aug. 8, 1909). "The Kingdom of God (In No Strange Land)," st. 1, Collected Works of Francis Thompson, vol. 2, ed. Wilfred Meynell (1913).
Opening lines.)
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... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
(Robert Musil (1880-1942), Austrian author. Literati and Literature. Marginal Glosses, first published in Die Neue Rundschau (Sept. 1931), Robert Musil, Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 88, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Eloisa to Abelard.)
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A world of made
is not a world of born-
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. Pity this busy monster, manunkind (l. 8-9). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children's homes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
(Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. Sergius O'Shaugnessy, in The Deer Park, ch. 6, Putnam's (1955).)
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If we call the world of "things"Mof physical objects—the first world, and the world of subjective experiences (such as thought processes) the second world, we may call the world of statements in themselves the third world.
(Karl Popper (1902-1994), Austrian born-British philosopher of science. Unended Quest, p. 181 (1976). Originally published in The Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Karl Popper, "Autobiography of Karl Popper," ed. P. Schilpp (1974).
The famous distinction by which the author defends logic, semantics, etc., against psychologism.)
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Lectures on Don Quixote, introduction (1983).)
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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, December 8, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
(Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805), German dramatist, poet, historian. Inaugural lecture, May 26, 1789, as Professor of History at the University of Jena, Weimar, Germany.
See also Hegel's comment under "history," rendering a similar idea.)
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
(Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist. "The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon," ch. 1, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988, trans. 1990).)
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