If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.