Quotes About Worldview

I think there's a difference between somebody who grows up in Paris or London and goes to Los Angeles. But if you grow up in the green fields, and you rarely go into the city, you're so overprotected that when you do go to L.A., it's almost a bigger slap in the head.

M? întreb chiar dac? istoria nu ne apare atât de absurd? tocmai din cauza acestei confisc?ri monstruoase în profitul unui singur fel de a vedea lumea, a unui singur comportament, care nu poate fi decât limitat ÅŸi, deci, fals...

pentru societ??ile moderne -lumea- înseamn? tot mai puÈ›in Cosmos È™i tot mai mult? Istorie

Así como la -naturaleza- es el producto de una secularización progresiva del cosmos obra de Dios, el hombre profano es el resultado de una desacralización de la existencia humana.

Through her eyes, Matt saw the world as an infinitely hopeful place.

What we believe about God is crucial because it affects what we believe about everything else.

it is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

It's not simply that these "cool dudes" deny climate science because it threatens to upend their dominance-based worldview. It is that their dominance-based worldview provides them with the intellectual tools to write off huge swaths of humanity, and indeed, to rationalize profiting from the meltdown.

This is where the intersection between hard-right ideology and climate denial gets truly dangerous. It's not simply that these cool dudes deny climate science because it threatens to upend their dominance-based worldview. It is that their dominance-based worldview provides them with the intellectual tools to write off huge swaths of humanity in the developing world.

the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis—embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.

Cuando uno es joven ve el mundo como debería ser y cuando es viejo lo ve como es en realidad

It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so." The ABC of Relativity [1925]

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Der Mensch geht immer nur so weit, wie er glaubt, dass die Welt geht.

The worldview of a people, though normally left unspoken in the daily business of buying and selling and counting shekels, is to be found in a culture's stories, myths, and rituals, which, if studied aright, inevitably yield insight into the deepest concerns of a people by unveiling the invisible fears and desires inscribed on human hearts.

There is within this worldview a terrifying personal implication: that I myself have no fixed identity but am, like the rest of reality, essentially fluid—essentially inessential.

We must recognize that our view of the world is just that - a view that has been shaped by our own vantage point, history, and idiosyncratic knowledge.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."11 As individuals and as a society, we should be less accepting of superstition and sloppy thinking, and should strive to develop those "habits of mind" that promote a more accurate view of the world.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The results show how unreliable peer consensus can be, even when it is a peer consensus of highly intellectual people, if those people share a very similar vision of the world and treat its conclusions as axioms, rather than as hypotheses that need to be checked against facts.

people share a very similar vision of the world and treat its conclusions as axioms rather than as hypotheses that need to be checked against facts.

This is the way out of helplessness and hopelessness. By following the thread of the anger back to its original source, and allowing the anger to express freely in a healthy manner, a seeker begins to understand why life appears to be the way it is (hint: we learn our worldview by mimicking someone else's, or we believe what they taught us about ourselves and the world without investigating for ourselves whether it's true or not).