Quotes About Worldview

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human being.

Travel makes one modest," said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such perspective can be strangely liberating.

The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth—he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

Dividimos el mundo entero en "deseable" e "indeseable", concedemos permanencia a lo que es efímero y percibimos como cualidades autónomas lo que en realidad es una red infinita de relaciones que cambian sin cesar.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Há mulheres que procuram um homem que lhes abra o mundo. Outras buscam um que as tire do mundo. A maior parte, porém, acaba se unindo a alguém que lhes tira o mundo.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

Truth be told, most people would not be comfortable if they had to live permanently where their opinions and worldview naturally led.

Black and white people don't merely have different experiences; we seem to occupy different universes, with worldviews that are fatally opposed to one another.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

there is no metaphysically neutral starting point from which science can lift itself up by its own intellectual bootstraps.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its refusal to affirm a preferred way of life or conception of the good.

We perceive the world in the light of our hopes and fears.

By contrast, in a reason-based worldview like that of Enlightenment humanism in which the principle of interchangeable perspectives means that no one can reasonably argue for special privilege over others, morality shifts from the vantage point of the group to that of the individual, and instead of working toward some unfounded and unattainable utopian ideology in the distant future, the political system is designed to solve specific problems that are obtainable in the here and now.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one's place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

Volpe expands their worldview and shows them that struggle and suffering are universal, but so are hope and resilience.