World ( Ouspensky)

"Let us take some other word, for example, the term 'world.'

Each man understands it in his own way, and each man in an entirely different way.

Everyone when he hears or pronounces the word 'world' has associations entirely foreign and incomprehensible to another.

Every 'conception of the world,' every habitual form of thinking, carries with it its own associations, its own ideas.

This uniting of two ideas of an entirely different order, scale, and significance gave rise to many further misunderstandings and completely distorted the whole system for those who thought in this manner.