Quotes About Paradigm

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

The unthought hurts because we're comfortable in what's already thought.

There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual

C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

The difficulty is not merely that of destroying old ideas that are false; it is not merely that of replacing them with true ideas that are new; it is that of causing people habitually to associate meanings that are new and true with terms associated so long, so universally, so uniformly with meanings that are false.

A astrologia é antropocêntrica. Vivemos na Terra, não no Sol. E, se considerarmos o sistema solar como um paradigma para a psique, esse Zodíaco Tropical reflete uma verdade psíquica. A vida que vivemos entre o nosso nascimento e a nossa morte é um tipo de ilusão, ou aquilo que os hindus chamam de maya, ou que Shakespeare chamou 'a matéria de que são feitos os sonhos'. Porém, enquanto estamos aqui, eles parecem muito reais.

A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required.

Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

People don't use Evite or Facebook events for their weddings. But they do use Paperless Post. It's the sign of a paradigm because it is the most momentous occasion in most people's lives. It represents the most formal type of offline communication.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken.

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is, implicitly or explicitly, a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.