World Lines

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or lines:

    In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
    Ernest Renan (1823–1892)

    It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.
    Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)