„Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.“
— Hayao Miyazaki
„Man, the two-fold creature, apprehendsThe two-fold manner, in and outwardly,And nothing in the world comes single to him.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„That low man seeks a little thing to do,Sees it and does it.This high man, with a great thing to pursue,Dies ere he knows it.That low man goes on adding one to one,—His hundred's soon hit;This high man, aiming at a million,Misses an unit.That has the world here—should he need the next,Let the world mind him!This throws himself on God, and unperplexedSeeking shall find him.“
— Robert Browning
„New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.“
— Martin Buber