It sounds like something he would have said. Related ideas, all currently unsourced:
Somewhere in the talmud it says that killing a person is akin to killing an entire world, and, conversely, saving a single person is akin to saving an entire world.
There is a possibly-chassidic idea that one should carry two pieces of paper in one's pockets. On one it says "for me the world was created", and on the other it says "I am but dust".
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It sounds like something he would have said. Related ideas, all currently unsourced:
Somewhere in the talmud it says that killing a person is akin to killing an entire world, and, conversely, saving a single person is akin to saving an entire world.
There is a possibly-chassidic idea that one should carry two pieces of paper in one's pockets. On one it says "for me the world was created", and on the other it says "I am but dust".