Quotes About Worldview

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Another interesting way in which the mechanistic worldview is being transcended is through discoveries having to do with chaos theory. It seems that systems of various kinds often exist in a state of chaos or, as they say, "on the edge of chaos," and then suddenly and unpredictably there emerges something called a "strange attractor" that rearranges the chaos into some new order.

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be

His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

It seemed an odd thing to say, and yet all of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.

all of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.

the failure to make progress on this issue suggests a worldview in deep paradigmatic crisis.70 It's not for nothing that consciousness is considered one of the deepest mysteries facing the modern mind.

embodied in the notion that there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose.

There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is "true," that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension.

It is well to understand as early as possible in one's writing life that there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us

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we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ...

The interpretation of the world through the lens of 'social justice', 'identity group politics' and 'intersectionalism' is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

There are two basic approaches to life- one in which the world is a world of scarcity, given to us by the skinflint god, and the other in which the world is a world of endless possibilities, bestowed on us by a loving Father.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it doesn't just confuses everybody, starting with you. RECOMMENDED

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

We like to see ourselves as rational creatures, but we're often ready to buy into whatever is most comfortable or enjoyable to believe. We like ideas that fit with our existing worldview. We like to believe what our friends believe. And most of us like to believe that the future looks rosy.

when we challenge our assumptions about the world—or even more important, when we realize we're making an assumption that we didn't even know we were making—we may or may not change our views. But even if we don't, the exercise of challenging them should at least force us to notice our own stubbornness, which in turn should give us pause.

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.

The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.