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• To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, World, Stoic

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• The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  E. O. Wilson

  Spiritual, Essence, Views

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage

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• I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reading, Writing, Views

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Views, Arabia, Followers

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• Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

  Kirk Cameron

  Dark, Views, Rejection

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• The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sadness, Views, World

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, School

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• Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Future, Past, Views

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.9, New World Library

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• I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like irony is fine for its own sake but shouldn't be the sole reason to write a book. It has been an ironic world view: that's the best way I can describe it. I'm a fan of earnestness. I feel like there's a new wave of earnestness and I'd be happy if I'm some small part of that.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Moving, Writing

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• There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  College, Views, Appreciate

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• World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Perception, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of satanic power.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Not to be outdone by Robertson, Mohler claimed that Buddhism, Hinduism, and Marxism are "demonstration[s] of satanic power"". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.mediamatters.org. March 20, 2006.

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• [Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied' in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Discovery, Views, Discipline

  "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, 1987, Volume 1". Book edited by Douglas Schuler and Jonathan Jacky, 1989.

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• By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

  Muhammad Asad

  Views, West, Degrees

  "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

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• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

  Max Planck

  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Ideas, Our World

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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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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• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Views, World, Matter

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Our World

  "LSD : My Problem Child" by Albert Hofmann, (Foreword), 1980.

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• About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Views, America

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• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Views, Years

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, God, Stars

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