Famous quotes containing the words world, series and/or appearances:
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“There is in every either-or a certain naivete which may well befit the evaluator, but ill- becomes the thinker, for whom opposites dissolve in series of transitions.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)