Quotes About Worldview

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.

To understand a man, Napoleon said, you need to know how the world looked when he was twenty.

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

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d'individus : Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu'il est et se demandent pourquoi. Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu'il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?

Selbstsüchtige Menschen halten immer ihr eigenes Unbehagen für das Wichtigste auf der Welt.

If the facts don't fit one's worldview, one of several things can happen: • The fact may be changed to fit your worldview. • The fact may be ignored. • The fact may be rejected and possibly ridiculed. • Or the facts, if threatening to your worldview, may be attacked. All

Not surprisingly, the social reality defined by a culture affects its conception of physical reality. What is real for an individual as a member of a culture is a product both of his social reality and of the way in which that shapes his experience of the physical world. Since

Morality of Reward and Punishment plays an enormous role in the conservative worldview. The reward side rules out any government distribution of wealth or benefits that is not based on free market competition, and it makes the right to the disposition of private property absolute; the punishment side focuses the criminal justice system on retribution.

The strict father worldview is so named because according to its own beliefs, the father is the head of the family. The nurturant parent worldview is gender neutral.

In short, the moral hierarchy is an implicit part of the culture wars.

the right wing is attempting to impose a strict father ideology on America and, ultimately, the rest of the world.

Conservative language activates circuitry for the conservative worldview; progressive language activates circuitry for the progressive worldview.

As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.

When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

I feel like Americans don't really have any idea of what's going on in the world, especially us Africans. I feel like when they think about Africans, they think about just us running around with lions and tigers and all those other animals.

In the absence of biblical conviction, people will go the way of culture.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.