The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.[Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.]
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
The world is very cruel to women. They must do what they can for themselves – while they are young. When they are old and ugly no one will help them.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.[Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge.]
The world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
The World Is Not Enough.
The world is not a wish-granting factory.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
The world is never quiet; even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations that escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.
The world is independent of my will.[Die Welt ist unabhängig von meinem Willen.]
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The world is everything that is the case.[Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.]
