Quotes About Worldview

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.

People who expect the world to end very soon, and are planning on being raptured out of it, are not likely to be concerned about dominion over the earth, nor the application of God's law to the whole of life. Moreover, if such people believe, as they do, that Satan rules the world, they will regard their responsibilities to the world as negligible, and the world as something to escape from.

Mysticism is always incapable of dealing with the problems of culture because it is a denial of their validity.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

I am all in favour of science and reason if they are scientific and reasonable. But I am against granting scientists and the materialist worldview an exemption from critical thinking and sceptical investigation. We need an enlightenment of the Enlightenment.17

The function of hegemony is to transform ideology into culture, into a "world view" that is seen as "normal" and "natural" by everyone from the controlling classes to the subordinate classes. Today, the major means of establishing the hegemony are the mass media.

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

Your vision makes your world. If you see the world as a happy, loving place, then that's where you're going to live. But if you see the world as a messed up, negative, and dangerous place, then that will be your reality.

The development of contemporary consumer societies has had a profound effect on the way we view the world. Stated most simply, we have come to regard an increasing profusion of both natural and human-produced things as objects to be desired, acquired, savored, and possessed.

Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?

No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world.

Many Christians basically accept the modern worldview's image of reality and then add God onto it. God is the one who created the space-time world of matter and energy as a self-contained system, set it in motion, and perhaps sometimes intervenes in it. God becomes a supernatural being "out there" who created a universe from which God is normally absent. This is, as we shall see, a serious distortion of the meaning of the word "God.

The change in my worldview has made it possible for me once again to take God seriously. I am convinced that the sacred is real.

The modern worldview yields a material understanding of reality. What is real is the space-time world of matter and energy. Reality is made up of tiny bits and pieces of "stuff," all of them interacting with each other in accord with "natural laws." The result is a picture of the universe as a closed system of cause and effect. Although this worldview has already been superseded in theoretical physics, it continues to operate powerfully in our minds.

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Most people, women included, judge according to their own experience. We think what we need to think, in order to hold on to our own worldview and validate what we must believe. It is a matter of survival, although it may seem merely to be prejudice to someone else. It takes a lot of courage to turn your world upside down and start again. Most people have enough practical worries of survival not to look for philosophical ones.