Quotes About Worldview

el origen primero de cualquier filosofía es la conciencia de una brecha, de una incertidumbre en nuestro conocimiento del mundo. La filosofía de Schopenhauer es en primer lugar un comentario acerca de las condiciones del conocimiento; una epistemología.

Las mutaciones metafísicas –es decir, las transiciones radicales y globales de la visión del mundo adoptada por la mayoría– son raras en la historia de la humanidad. Como ejemplo, se puede citar la aparición del cristianismo.

La chispa de curiosidad que subsistía en mi forma de mirar el mundo se apagaría pronto y sería como las piedras, con el añadido de un vago sufrimiento. Mi carrera no había sido un fracaso, al menos en términos comerciales: si agredes al mundo con suficiente violencia, él te acaba escupiendo su cochina pasta; pero nunca, nunca te devuelve la alegría.

Je ne suis ni optimiste, ni pessimiste. Je suis un tragique qui voit le réel tel qu'il est.

The puzzle for psychology is how people maintain views of the world that are contrary to the evidence. Why, for example, is the USA both a powerhouse of science and scientific discovery, while at the same time it demonstrates a rapid growth in fundamentalist religious sects that deny or distort the very evidence that science presents?

Christians can influence the world for the better again. But it will mean making a commitment to stand by a worldview that current society often rejects and ridicules.

Wahrnehmung ist unsere Sicht auf die Welt und uns durch die Brille unserer Ãœberzeugungen.

Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with "Economics in One Lesson." Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldview that you can articulate as well as defend. Test your theory with people who disagree with you. Debate. Argue. Adjust your philosophy as necessary.

What many Christians focus on is a view of the world as full of opportunities for grace.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I mjese?ina može biti pogled na svijet.

On je heroj po svom juna?kom ''pogledu na svijet''.

The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you. Another man sees the same world, but he doesn't have the same eyes.

Salvation fits into a unified view of the entire world, and yet it is also gritty, localized, and contextual. It is grounded in concrete experiences of the world. It must always look, feel, and taste like something.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Atheists enjoy weekends, even though they are more religious, rather than scientific.

My philosophical idea is that I am a materialist.

To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

Paul developed something we can appropriately call his 'theology', a radical mutation in the core beliefs of his Jewish world, because only so could he sustain what we can appropriately call the 'worldview' which he held himself and which he longed for his churches to hold as well.

The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates, and this has provided a singularly unhelpful backdrop to the would-be serious discussion of other parts of the Bible.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.

Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn't invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was invented by Epicurus (looking back to Democritus and others) and popularized by Lucretius. It wasn't and isn't a new, modern discovery. It is simply one part of one ancient worldview.