The whole spiritual universe exists only in process—what Hegel calls "Der Process des Geistes"—the process of the spirit, that is to say, not as become, but as becoming; and if it once ceases to become, it ceases as such to be. Ed.
The whole universe is at all moments saying 15 "Nay" to the Spirit of God, and God's Spirit is at all moments saying "Yea" to the stolid "Nay" of the universe, which would fain be let alone; but stubborn as the material looks and is, it has to obey, and does obey, the voice of God. Ed.
The whole world is, properly speaking, a tragic embarras. Rahel.
The whole world of truth and conscience is nothing without I. Jean Paul.
The wide pasture is but separate spears of grass; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but isolated flowers. Ward Beecher.
The wife can carry more out of the house in her apron than the man can bring in on a harvest-waggon. Rückert.
The wife is the key of the house. Pr. 20
The wife that expects to have a good name / Is always at home as if she were lame; / And the mind that is honest, her chiefest delight, / Is still to be doing from morning till night. Sp. Pr.
The will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions. Schopenhauer.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Scott.