The world turns, and we turn with it. 🌍 These quotes celebrate our planet and the brilliant minds who have tried to make sense of its mysteries—its beauty, absurdity, and spiritual depth. Let their wisdom help you see the world anew.

“God should not be judged on the basis of this world—it is just one of his rough sketches.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. ~ Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. ~ Albert Einstein

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe. ~ Peter De Vries

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think this watch exists and has no Watchmaker. ~ Voltaire

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. ~ Frank Moore Colby

The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

The world is all about you: You can fence yourself in, but you cannot forever fence it out. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

The world is all outside, it has no inside. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~ Jack London, To Build a Fire