Famous quotes containing the words world and/or state:
“We have given the world our passion,
We have naught for death but toys.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)