Quotes About World

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren't just about belief.

What shall I say to a faithless brother. The king of the damned is a poor judge of being. It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world, a handyman's dream if ever there was one, is to fix yourself (as we discussed in rule 6). Anything else is presumptuous. Anything else risks harm stemming from your ignorance and lack of skill.

if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it

Thus, they did not concern themselves with what the world was, as a scientist might have it, but with how a human being should act. I suggested that our ancestors portrayed the world as a stage—a drama—instead of a place of objects. I described how I had come to believe that the constituent elements of the world as drama were order and chaos, and not material things.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

El ejemplo arquetípico o último del salvador es el redentor del mundo, el Mesías: héroe creador y redentor del mundo, revolucionario social y gran reconciliador.

How can a person who is awake avoid outrage at the world?

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.

Trying to address a perplexing problem: the reason or reasons for the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

The individual is molded by the social world. But social institutions are molded, too, by the requirements of the individuals who compose them.

What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best?

When we first began to perceive the unknown, chaotic, non-animal world, we used categories that had originally evolved to represent the pre-human animal social world. Our minds are far older than mere humanity.

It's not God I don't accept. Understand this," says Ivan. "I do not accept the world that He created, this world of God's, and cannot agree with it.

They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive. The world is a forum of sharing and trading (that's Rule 7, again), not a treasure-house for the plundering. To give is to do what you can to make things better.

La gente crea su propio mundo con las herramientas que tiene a su alcance y unas herramientas defectuosas producen resultados defectuosos.

Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your own missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and to live.

Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.

Without the intermediation of the social world, it would be impossible for us to organize our minds, and we would simply be overwhelmed by the world.

You simply don't understand how every neural circuit through which you peer at the world has been shaped (and painfully) by the ethical aims of millions of years of human ancestors and all of the life that was lived for the billions of years before that.

You can discipline your children, or you can turn that responsibility over to the harsh, uncaring judgmental world—and the motivation for the latter decision should never be confused with love.

Describí cómo había llegado a la conclusión de que los elementos que constituían el mundo como una obra de teatro eran el orden y el caos, y no elementos materiales.

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