World View Quotes

• Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings

  Frank Stella

  Artist, Doctors, Views

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• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Views, Effort

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Views, World, Action

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• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  Vernor Vinge

  Views, World, Approach

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• In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

  Dennis Prager

  Independent, Biblical, Men

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.39, Creators Publishing

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• I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

  John Thune

  Christian, Thinking, Issues

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• As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Views, Stronger, World

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.100, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Issues, Views, Feminist

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• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Perception

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.

  Kurt Gödel

  Men, Views, Principles

  "Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel". Book by John W. Dawson Jr., 1997.

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• Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

  Kent Hovind

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

  Richard Dawkins

  Views, Interesting, World

  "Going the whole hog". www.timeshighereducation.com. April 28, 1995.

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• When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Hate, Self

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.144, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

  James Ransone

  Views, World

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• One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.

  Philip Sherrard

  Self, Views, Hands

  Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

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• As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Reality, Air

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• If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view of order and even punitiveness. And for some reason, there's a feeling that the male psyche is going to give that to them. And if that's your view of religion, which it is for many people, if they've never come to the mystical level, religion is for social order and to maintain social order.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Views, Order

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• Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Views, Giving

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• Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, Preface, 1949.

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• I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Views, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

  Donella Meadows

  Views, World, Evolution

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• In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Francis Schaeffer (2013). “He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.4, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

  Steve Albini

  Suicide, Unique, Views

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Thinking, Our World

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