Quotes About Worldview

The whole of society pivots around that force which man has come to uphold as his principal deity - egotism. Under the influence of this jealous deity, man is forced to perceive the world around him only in terms of gross separativeness; his prevailing thoughts ever centred upon the theme of 'i here, and the world out there'.

Internal dialogue is the sum total of all mental and emotional activity directed at maintaining our view of the world.

In the psychotherapeutic worldview to which all good liberals subscribe, there is no evil, only victimhood. The robber and the robbed, the murderer and the murdered, are alike the victims of circumstance, united by the events that overtook them. Future generations (I hope) will find it curious how, in the century of Stalin and Hitler, we have been so eager to deny man's capacity for evil.

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.

For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.

Ás vezes respondo. Posso lhes contar da doçura e do encanto dela, e descrever como me ensinou a ver o mundo como o lugar maravilhoso que é.

When you're as ill-read as I am, routinely ignoring the literature of the entire non-English-speaking world seems like a minor infraction.

Because we take certain things about the world for granted when we encounter new data, we accept it or reject it based in large part on whether it corresponds with or contradicts what we think we already know. This is what I had said earlier. This is being increasingly reinforced by the so-called bubble or silo effect in which computer algorithms channel our online behavior so that we rarely encounter views with which we disagree

Our own accumulated experience becomes increasingly solidified over time. That is, we start to think we know how the world works, and things that accord with that evolving viewpoint we take in much more easily than things that seem to contradict how we think the world works. This evolution is a kind of ongoing process to the extent that we need to understand further and further how the world works.

Every moment she wasted saying No to what she KNEW, was a moment lost to comprehension. That her worldview couldn't contain such a mystery without shattering was its liability, and a problem for another day.

And if there is a fundamental difference between the way people perceived the world around them in the past and the way they perceive it at present, then it is perhaps best identified as follows: in the past, activism was coupled with optimism, while today activism requires pessimism.

Spiritualism is no less a one-sided world view than materialism. Monism, be it spiritual or material, does not so much disclose the alleged oneness of the world as it betrays the one-sidedness of its own view.

The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion.

Hänellä oli tuo kallisarvoinen kyky, aito naisellinen kyky, tehdä maailma omakseen missä tahansa olikin.

Ta caÅ'a psychiatria to nic innego, jak tylko swoisty mikrokosmos komunizmu [...]. Lepiej by zostawili ludziom ich kÅ'opoty osobiste. Nasuwa siÄ™ bowiem pytanie, czy kÅ'opoty nie sÄ… jedynÄ… rzeczÄ… na Å›wiecie, którÄ… ludzie mogÄ… mie? na wÅ'asno???

Granted, those of us who take Scripture seriously are often written off as ignorant or narrow-minded bigots in America today. And it's becoming increasingly common to be discriminated against for simply articulating biblical values. But let's be real. We've got it easy compared to many who are attempting to live their lives for Jesus in other parts of the world. We have nothing to whine about.

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Magellan's conception of the world he planned to explore was fatally inaccurate.

People flock into churches to have the world explained to them in a neat little package. For most people, religion is chaos insurance. Religion lays down a template on the world so that people can try to make some sense of it. The problem is that people end up living in the template and shutting out reality altogether.

grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism,

Così questo paese, dove non sono nato, ho creduto per molto tempo che fosse tutto il mondo. Adesso che il mondo l'ho visto davvero e so che è fatto di tanti piccoli paesi, non so se da ragazzo mi sbagliavo poi di molto.

Finally, it is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any attempt to call a halt is little more than a concession to a desire for mental or social convenience, seems to me as clear as anything can well be.

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.