Quotes About Worldview

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.

Es saludable analizar críticamente nuestra visión de mundo, el tejido de creencias que constituye el marco de referencia desde el cual evaluamos nuestro entorno. Es una hiedra espinosa enraizada en nuestra mente, que se adhiere a nuestro ser interceptando la luz, y que necesita de un jardinero que sepa dónde cortar. Ha crecido alimentada por el continuo proceso de educación formal e informal que determina nuestra panera de pensar y actuar.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

The heart of secularism is a functional atheism. Rather than rejecting the idea of God, our culture simply ignores him.

Here's where PTSD is particularly nasty. It isn't really a "disorder" as modern medical experts understand it. It's a shift in perspective. Being forced into Condition Black and being trained to live in Condition Yellow are both highly traumatizing. Both shift your worldview, often permanently. Both become hard-coded into personality, changing the individual in ways they never expected. Sometimes, amazingly enough, for the better.

We cannot have a precise understanding of what it means to be the winner of a contest until we can place the game in the absolute dimensions of a world.

In the Christian world view, having bodies is not a barrier to spirituality but how we live out our spirituality in a physical world.

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

A healthy perspective really is the foundation of joy and happiness, because the way we see the world is the way we experience the world. Changing the way we see the world in turn changes the way we feel and the way we act, which changes the world itself. Or, as the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, With our mind we create our own world.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

The idea of a Universe didn't fit into their world picture, so to speak. They simply couldn't cope with it. And so, charmingly, delightfully, intelligently, whimsically if you like, they decided to destroy it.

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

In political practice, we must be both 'the arrow and the bull's eye', because the old worldview is also still present within us.

When a novelist has "something to say," they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means "commitment," as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.

The world was amoral. To be idealistic was to ask to be blindsided,

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

That's what the world's about - different perspectives.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.

But do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it's painted.

P58) It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on "great leaders," Churchill's worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.