Quotes About Worldview

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

I found my fantasy in movies and she found it in mermaids, but we both knew you needed something. The smarter you were, the more you saw the world for what it was, people for who they truly were, those inside-out people, and if that was all you saw... you'd be in therapy 24/7. You needed to make your own reality because the real version could make you doubt humanity.

STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.

The point is that the mind was philosophically awakened, that it felt the need for a coherent overall philosophical image of the world. To young Djugashvili, it was quite evidently a mark of Marxism's special strength as a socialist ideology that it had dialectical materialism—"an entire world-view"—as its matrix.

everyone lives in a world of his own. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly on the way in which he looks at it

Daily Law: The person with the more global perspective wins. Expand your gaze.

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.

My people live with a grave misconception of the world, Bayle. In doing so, they create injustice.

If you look at zero, you see nothing ; but look through it and you will see the world.

Along the way, each marveled at how easy it was to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important it would be to further rely on oneself.

And you'd better bet that changes along the lines of those presented in this chapter occurred in the brains of anyone transformed by these transformations. A different world makes for a different worldview, which means a different brain. And the more tangible and real the neurobiology underlying such change seems, the easier it is to imagine that it can happen again.

Qué endeble es la concepción del mundo con que la gente se contenta...

You cling to those beliefs because that is the reality you were raised in.

We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.