World View Quotes

“And this is what mere humanity always does. It's made up of these inventors or artists, millions and millions of them, each in his own way trying to recruit other people to play a supporting role and sustain him in his make-believe. The great chiefs and leaders recruit the greatest number, and that's what their power is. There's one image that gets out in front to lead the rest and can impose its claim to being genuine with more force than others, or one voice enlarged to thunder is heard above the others. Then a huge invention, which is the invention maybe of the world itself, and of nature, becomes the actual world - with cities, factories, public buildings, railroads, armies, dams, prisons, and movies - becomes the actuality. That’s the struggle of humanity, to recruit others to your version of what’s real. Then even the flowers and the moss on the stones become the moss and the flowers of a version.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?”
― Robert Buettner, Overkill

“As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don't only feed us, dress us, and comfort us when we are upset; they shape the way our rapidly growing brain perceives reality. Our interactions with our caregivers convey what is safe and what is dangerous: whom we can count on and who will let us down; what we need to do to get our needs met. This information is embodied in the warp and woof of our brain circuitry and forms the template of how we think of ourselves and the world around us. These inner maps are remarkably stable across time.

This doesn‘t mean, however, that our maps can‘t be modified by experience. A deep love relationship, particularly during adolescence, when the brain once again goes through a period of exponential change, truly can transform us. So can the birth of a child, as our babies often teach us how to love. Adults who were abused or neglected as children can still learn the beauty of intimacy and mutual trust or have a deep spiritual experience that opens them to a larger universe. In contrast, previously uncontaminated childhood maps can become so distorted by an adult rape or assault that all roads are rerouted into terror or despair. These responses are not reasonable and therefore cannot be changed simply by reframing irrational beliefs.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“The attempt to see through eyes that are not your own. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. To think what it might mean to love those that are not like you. To rejoice in the complexity of things.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.”
― Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories

“The sea is forever, it existed long before I did. It shall outlast me. In a world where absolutely nothing is certain, at least that much is true.”
― Allison Pataki, The Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire

“The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.”
― Linda Leaming, Married to Bhutan

“Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Dust

“There is beauty in the world still. Even now. And it's worth saving for that reason alone.”
― Tosca Lee, A Single Light

“I used to be the kind of religious nut who convinces himself that, because the world doesn’t share his particular faith (for me, a faith in literature), we must be living in End Times.”
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

“If we can't get rid of our fears and so many of them lay inside of us these fears tend to color how we view the world. We shift from feeling fear because of some threat, to a having a fearful attitude towards life itself....We exaggerate the dangers and our vulnerability. We instantly focus on the adversity that is always possible. We instantly focus on the adversity that is always possible. We are generally unaware of this phenomenon because we accept it as normal. In times of prosperity, we have the luxury of fretting over things. But in times of trouble, this fearful attitude becomes particularly pernicious. Such moments are when we need to solve problems, deal with reality, and move forward, but fear is a call to retreat and retrench.”
― Robert Greene, The 50th Law

“Being negative is natural and being 100 percent positive takes work.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“Meaning in fiction is thus viewed as what an action leads to, results in, or implies. If the experiment in living succeeds, the work can be said to affirm that world view. If the experiment fails, the work denies that view of reality and by implication usually suggests an alternative.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had.

Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel insecure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

“Youth is lies. Youth is evil.

Those who incessantly celebrate their teenage years are lying both to themselves and to those around them. These people interpret everything in their environment as an affirmation of their beliefs, and when they make mistakes that prove fatal, they see those very mistakes as proof of the value of the Teen experience, looking back on it all as part of a beautiful memory.

For example, when people like this dirty their hands with criminal Acts like shoplifting or gang violence, they call it mere "youthful indiscretion." When they fail exams, they say that school is about more than just studying. they will twist any common sense or normal interpretation of their actions in the name of the word youth. In their minds, secrets, lies, and even crimes and failures are naught but the spice of youth. And in their wrongdoing and their failures, they discover their own uniqueness. they then conclude that these failures were all entirely part of the Teen experience, but the failures of others are merely defeat. If failure is the proof of the Teen experience, then wouldn't an individual who has failed to make friends be having the ultimate teen experience? But these people would never accept that as truth.

Is there a certian are nothing but an excuse. Their principles are based entirely on their own convenience. Thus, their principles are deceit. Lies, deceit, secrets, and fraud are all reprehensible things.

These people are evil. And that means, paradoxically, that those who do not celebrate their teenage years are correct and righteous.

In conclusion:
YOU NORMIES CAN GO DIE IN A FIRE.”
― Wataru Watari, My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected @ comic, Vol. 3

“All I do know is that special things happen in special places, and sometimes mysteries are just that, But really, special places are everywhere. I think a place can be special simply because it is, it was special since the end of time, and will be until the end of time, like the cliff. And other times, a place can be special because of what we do when we're there.”
― Crystal Chan, Bird

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain
alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

“A single dream can change your entire perspective on the world.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“There is a way of thinking that is a kind of madness. You look for signs and meaning in clouds and leaves and cards and license plates. And you find it, almost. The revelation is just a little past your reach, leading you on till you are trading secrets with a stranger in the elevator or a tree in the park. That is Magic Thinking. But Magic Realism says, ‘suppose it is true, just for a day, just for a page.’ The weird and magical happens, unexplained, turning everyday life into a mystery.”
― Raymond St. Elmo, The Origin of Birds in the Footprints of Writing

“The other thing I think we learned on Tuesday (election day) is that this is an electorate that is not particularly generous in doling out the credit for things. I think this goes beyond politics, bur clearly in the case of politics where the voters are now conditioned to look for the worst in everyone and really to disbelieve that there's very much good in anyone. It's hard to be a politician under those circumstances, but, again, I think this mood of looking for the worst in everyone extends beyond the political world.
(from the book The NPR Interviews 1995, edited by Robert Siegel)”
― Geoff Garin

“...I don't know why anyone is surprised at how the world treats you. This has never really been a planet that embraces difference.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“The rational world view that is maintained by the waking conscious self is a perfect cage; it limits our potential so much that even the contemplation of the possibility of another greater reality is interpreted as insanity, guaranteeing that few will ever even suspect the marvels hidden in the depths of the Second World. But that is the price we all are willing to pay I suppose, to also protect the cozy sensible human world from the titans beyond the gate.”
― John Kreiter, The Way of the Projectionist: Alchemy’s Secret Formula to Altered States and Breaking the Prison of the Flesh

“We're trying to do something. It would be easy--for now--to take Charles out of school. We thought about that immediately, even before he ...But Charles Wallace is going to have to live in a world made up of people who don't think at all in any of the ways that he does. and the sooner he starts learning to get along with them, the better. Neither you nor Charles has the ability to adapt that the twins do.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“...she quoted (E.B.) White as saying "I love the world." Laura said, "I think all writers and artists love the world, and that's why they're so curious.”
― Ronald Kessler, Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady

“Nimm an, du sitzest in einer Hochalpenlandschaft auf einer Bank am Wege. Rings um dich her Grashalden, mit Felsblöcken durchsprengt, am Talhang gegenüber ein Geröllfeld mit niedrigem Erlengestrüpp. Steil geböschtes Waldgebirge zu beiden Seiten des Tals bis hoch hinauf an die baumlosen Almmatten; und vor dir vom Talgrund aufsteigend der gewaltige firngekrönte Hochgipfel, dessen weiche Schneelenden und scharfkantige Felsgrate jetzt eben der letzte Strahl der scheidenden Sonne in zartestes Rosenrot taucht, wundervoll abgehoben von dem durchsichtig klaren, blaßblauen Firmament.

All das, was dein Auge sieht, ist - nach der bei uns gewöhnlichen Auffassung - mit geringen Veränderungen Jahrtausende lang v o r dir dagewesen. Über ein Weilchen — nicht lange — wirst du nicht mehr sein, und Wald, Fels und Himmel werden Jahrtausende n a c h dir noch unverändert dastehen.

Was ist's, das dich so plötzlich aus dem Nichts hervorgerufen, um dieses Schauspiel, das deiner nicht achtet, ein Weilchen zu genießen? Alle Bedingungen für dein Sein sind fast so alt wie der Fels. Jahrtausende lang haben Männer gestrebt, gelitten und gezeugt, haben Weiber unter Schmerzen geboren. Vor hundert Jahren vielleicht saß ein anderer an dieser Stelle, blickte gleich dir, Andacht und Wehmut im Herzen, auf zu den verglühenden Firnen. Er war vom Mann gezeugt, vom Weib geboren gleich dir. Er fühlte Schmerz und kurze Freude wie du. W a r es ein anderer? Warst du es nicht selbst? Was ist dies dein Selbst? Welche Bedingung mußte hinzutreten, damit dies Erzeugte du wurdest, gerade du, und nicht — ein anderer? Welchen klar faßbaren, n a t u r w i s s e n s c h a f t l i c h e n Sinn soll denn dieses „ein anderer“ eigentlich haben? Hätte sie, die jetzt deine Mutter ist, einem anderen beigewohnt und mit ihm einen Sohn gezeugt, und dein Vater desgleichen, wärest d u geworden? Oder lebtest du in ihnen, in deines Vaters Vater... schon seit Jahrtausenden? Und wenn auch dies, warum bist du nicht dein Bruder, dein Bruder nicht du, warum nicht einer deiner entfernten Vettern? Was läßt dich einen so eigensinnigen Unterschied entdecken — den Unterschied zwischen dir und einem anderen —, wo objektiv d a s s e l b e vorliegt?

Unter solchem Anschaun und Denken kann es geschehn, daß urplötzlich die tiefe Berechtigung jener vedântischen Grundüberzeugung aufleuchtet: unmöglich kann die Einheit, dieses Erkennen, Fühlen und Wollen, das du das d e i n e nennst, vor nicht allzulanger Zeit in einem angebbaren Augenblick aus dem Nichts entsprungen sein; vielmehr ist dieses Erkennen, Fühlen und Wollen wesentlich ewig und unveränderlich und ist numerisch nur e i n e s in allen Menschen, ja in allen fühlenden Wesen. Aber auch nicht s o, daß du ein Teil, ein Stück bist von einem ewigen, unendlichen Wesen, eine Seite, eine Modifikation davon, wie es der Pantheismus des Spinoza will. Denn das bliebe dieselbe Unbegreiflichkeit: Welcher Teil, welche Seite bist gerade d u, was unterscheidet, objektiv, sie von den anderen? Nein, sondern so unbegreiflich es der gemeinen Vernunft scheint: du — und ebenso jedes andere bewußte Wesen für sich genommen — bist alles in allem. Darum ist dieses dein Leben, das du lebst, auch nicht ein Stück nur des Weltgeschehens, sondern in einem bestimmten Sinn das g a n z e. Nur ist dieses Ganze nicht so beschaffen, daß es sich mit e i n e m Blick überschauen läßt. — Das ist es bekanntlich, was die Brahmanen ausdrücken mit der heiligen, mystischen und doch eigentlich so einfachen und klaren Formel Tat twam asi (das bist du). — Oder auch mit Worten wie: Ich bin im Osten und im Westen, bin unten und bin oben, i c h b i n d i e s e g a n z e W e l t.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, My Life, My Worldview

“Starlight,” he drawled, his head tilting curiously, “there are two kinds of belonging. Possession … and alliance. One of single ownership, and one of mutual desire.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“The ultimate destination of this practice of negation is to see through and release even the attachment to the process of negation itself, allowing the full experience and truth and of what they are to be embraced. Many students reach this crossroad and find themselves unsure of how to proceed. We extend our hand to you, honoring the dedication of your soul, and invite you in to embrace The Way of All. This path encompasses everything, while acknowledging and honoring the inherent freedom that is truly available to you. It allows for action rooted in a soul-based, engaged, and invested self.
We are here to encourage you and say that there is meaning, and You are the meaning.”
― Gwen Juvenal, "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys

“...and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses,—in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart. How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text