Quotes About Worldview

I hope there's something wrong me. Because if there isn't something wrong me it means there's something wrong with the world. That's terrifying. So I'd like to think there's something wrong with me that can be made right.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

if there were no theists, there wouldn't even be any atheists.

mi maligna manera de entender el mundo me ayudaba a reirme por lo bajo...

According to the modern man, both causes and effects are relegated to the physical plane, framed within time and space. According to the traditional man the physical plane merely contains effects; nothing takes place in this world that did not originate first in the next world or in the invisible dimension.

we are 140 million people, and there are two billion people living on earth." However confident Americans might be that their views and ideas will prevail, the absolute "denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.

Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees the world in God, as the divine creation.

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

I always wanted to live outside of Australia... because I think it's good to see the world and get out of where you've been living, particularly if you're from somewhere like Australia, which is so isolated from the rest of the world. I chose New York because there was such a great choice of acting classes and it's such an intense place.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.

Children in America drew six-legged chickens because drumsticks came in packs of six, while adults drank milk from a carton, and recoiled at the sight of an udder. Their experience of the world was stunted, but it only fuelled their arrogance.

Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

A different language is a different vision of life.

we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes out perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world:

Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total ignorance of historical meanings, their delusion that anarchists were either comic little men plotting nothings in a dark cellar or misunderstood cranks--how could Americans be taken seriously in a world of real politics?

Quel suo fantomatico viaggio sulle Alpi aveva svelato una verità nascosta che portava dentro di sé. Sapeva di non essere un uomo che si nasconde dietro alle proprie menzogne. Ma allo stesso tempo aveva iniziato a chiedersi sempre più spesso se la sua visione del mondo non fosse in realtà una specie di menzogna, anche se derivava da una mancanza di sensibilità più che da un consapevole allontanamento dalla verità.

Though I am a born American, though I became what is called an expatriate, I look upon the world not as a partisan of this country or that but as an inhabitant of the globe.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.