Quotes About Worldview

Not unlike personal perspectives," Siwash said, "we rarely understand map projections that are not our own.

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

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

veo el mundo enteramente rosa y azul.

?ia ir pamilau tas knygas ir autorius taip, kaip moka ir supranta tik ilgame?iai skaitytojai. Geras filmas n? sykio man?s nepaliet? ir nepakeit? taip, kaip gera knyga. Knygos geb?davo amžiams keisti mano poži?r? ? pasaul?. Geras filmas mano pasaulio suvokim? pakeisdavo dienai.

Often a good starting point when trying to help those who do not believe in God or accept Christ as Lord is to get them to deal honestly with the question: Would I like for there to be a God? Or, would I like it if Jesus turned out to be Lord? This may help them realize the extent to which what they want to be the case is controlling their ability to see what is the case.

Secularism—itself always posing as knowledge, usually by striving to associate itself with "science" and "research"—justifies itself in determining political and legal processes and outcomes by stepping outside what is regarded as religion.

Has anyone shown that reality is secular? Could you show me the person and where this was done?

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

Many of us are afraid to call ourselves atheists," Kirsch said calmly to the assembled students. "And yet atheism is not a philosophy, nor is atheism a view of the world. Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.

the conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Americans believe that they are normal, that they make sense, and that the rest of the world is exotic. They do not seem to understand that they are the most exotic people in the world right now.

For Barth, and for us, Nazi Germany was the supreme test for modern theology. There we experienced the "modern world," which we had so labored to understand and to become credible to, as the world, not only of the Copernican world view, computers, and the dynamo, but also of the Nazis.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.