Quotes About Worldview

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Australian Aboriginal people is that they see the world in a multi-dimensional way – that's the only way I can describe it. Time is a more fluid concept for Aborigines than it is for us. Maybe they're string theorists, but I think that modern physical theory regarding the concept of time certainly has some resonance with an Aboriginal perspective. When

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

America is not the center of the universe.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I'm just a citizen of the world.

I'm a citizen of the world.

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world. That can be very funny. But to me, what's more interesting is that the world is on my shoulders, and it's pushing me down.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is.

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

He has no theistic beliefs, but shares the poetic naturalism that the cosmos provokes in

If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

People growing up in different countries copy their parents and believe in the god or gods of their own country. These beliefs contradict each other, so they can't all be right.

I asked Watson whether he knew many religious scientists today. He replied: 'Virtually none. Occasionally I meet them, and I'm a bit embarrassed [laughs] because, you know, I can't believe anyone accepts truth by revelation.

There he coined the acronym NOMA for the phrase 'non-overlapping magisteria':

45 per cent of the population of the United States firmly believes, to the contrary, an elementary falsehood: that all species separately owe their existence to 'intelligent design' less than ten thousand years ago.

Alice was surprised. In her worldview, everything was hopeless, but you just had to get on with it. And there wasn't much point changing what you believed at this late stage of the game.