Quote by Oscar Wilde

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben

Summary

This quote, translated as "The world is created by fools so that wise people can live in it," suggests that the world is dominated by foolishness and ignorance. However, it also implies that wise individuals have a purpose in this world â€” to navigate through the chaos and guide others towards enlightenment and understanding. It highlights the contrast between the majority who are foolish and the minority who possess wisdom, emphasizing the importance of wisdom in creating a meaningful and purposeful life within a foolish world.

Topics

Wisdom Life

By Oscar Wilde

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is tha

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

Sidney Jourard, "Redbook", Octob

Love

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Past Night Today

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

Punishment

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an inven

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Beauty

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Hope

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her pun

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Vanity

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Art

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Henry David Thoreau

Progress

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talk

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Food