Quotes About Worldview

But there is a long history within the far right of right-wing media positioning itself as the only true and honest media. To promote a world viewpoint distinct from that shared by the majority, it was critical to assert that everyone else simply didn't have the correct information on which to base decisions. That is a far easier task than accusing most of the country of being crazy.

I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7

For almost all these women, their faith is the means by which they make sense of the world and of themselves; it is who they are and what they do, not something they have.

Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancien regime.

You're becoming more and more deeply in debt to yourself, and you are already bankrupt. You look at yourself too much. That's the beginning of all absurdity. Look about you. The world is an interesting place.

La percepción del mundo comienza como una sinécdoque — ver la parte por el todo. La estructura del verdadero aprendizaje consiste en hallar totalidades cada vez más verdaderas, s[in] perder la percepción concreta de las partes.)

Social Democrats will always protest against persecution of Catholicism or Protestantism; they will always defend the right of nations to profess any religion they please; but at the same time, on the basis of a correct understanding of the interests of the proletariat, they will carry on agitation against Catholicism, Protestantism and the religion of the Orthodox Church in order to achieve the triumph of the socialist world outlook.

Your frame is a mental structure that determines how you see the universe. The viewpoint and fundamental meaning of a conversation are its frames."

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

one cognitive symptom of depression may be the loss of optimistic, self-enhancing biases that normally protect healthy people against assaults to their self-esteem. In many instances, depressives may simply be judging themselves and the world much more accurately than non-depressed people, and finding it not a pretty place.

What would be labeled as the casting of spells-such as sending a plague of locusts-when done by an outsider, is considered a miracle from God when accomplished by an insider. One problem with the "us and them" worldview is that it frequently condemns the behavior of outsiders and glorifies that of insiders, even when the behavior is exactly the same. One

The shift in the landscape of religious belief and practice is nothing less than a shift in worldview. People are changing the way they think about religion and religious practice, who is "us" and who is "them," and whether such distinctions make sense in a global, interdependent environment. Wayne

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone - they did not think of the world beyond what they knew - but I always did and still do.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.

Chaque langue voit le monde d'une manière différente.

Le confucianisme n'est pas seulement un essai d'explication rationaliste du monde, il est une morale politique et sociale; sinon une vraie religion, comme on l'a avancé, du moins une attitude philosophique qui s'accommode aussi bien d'une certaine religiosité que du scepticisme, ou même de l'agnosticisme le plus franc.

Little god, you see the world through such black eyes." "Got no choice. My father give 'em to me.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

This integrated approach to painting, philosophy, and science lay at the heart of Leonardo's project. And yet we find it easier to simply marvel at the work of "his hand" than to understand this work as the lost way of comprehending the world that it in fact is.