Quotes About Worldview

being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

understanding our customers' worldview and desires so we can connect with them. It's focused on being missed when you're gone, on bringing more than people expect to those who trust us. It seeks volunteers, not victims.

We each have our own narratives. The noise in our head, the worldview that is unique to us, the history and beliefs and perceptions that shape who we are and what we choose.

Each person has a story in his or her head, a narrative used to navigate the world. The extraordinary thing is that every person's narrative is different.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

would only point out that as a clinician, I have spent countless hours trying to find alternate explanations that would not require the major shift in my worldview that I have had to face.

And I did not foresee how fundamentally challenged the view of the world in which I had been raised would be.

have discussed already some of the reasons why the reality of the abduction phenomenon has been so difficult for our culture to accept – the material and philosophical vested interests, for example, attached to the Western worldview.

Needless to say none of this makes much sense within the modern worldview brought to us by Western science, whose "governing assumption," in philosopher Richard Tarnas's words, is that "any meaning the human mind perceives in the universe does not exist intrinsically in the universe but is projected onto it by the human mind" (Tarnas 2006).

Weet je, onze wereld, of liever de reikwijdte van onze invloed en belangen in die wereld, wordt met de dag groter, Will. Die gaat verder dan de grenzen van ons leen, verder dan de grenzen van ons land zelfs. - Crowley

The reader is invited to ask him-or herself, Is it possible that I am seeing the world from inside a System? Am I, unbeknownst to myself, a Systems-person? The answer is always, Yes. The relevant question is, simply, Which System?

Though we cannot expect to be able to think like they thought, or read their minds, or penetrate very deeply into so much that is opaque to us in their culture, we can begin to see that there are other ways of thinking besides our own and begin to identify some of the ways in which we have been presumptuously ethnocentric.

The most respectful reading we can give to the text, the reading most faithful to the face value of the text—and the most "literal" understanding, if you will—is the one that comes from their world not ours. Consequently