Seneca the Younger Quotes

A wise man’s country is the world.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

My parents always instilled in me to be a citizen of the world, so that's why I've taken to traveling and why it's such a huge part of my life.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

I think I'm more European in personality.

It's hard to be judgmental once you've been around the world... it's pretty hard to be anything but understanding, and I think it's good for everybody to get out and see someplace other than where you grew up.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.