None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.
If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
Whoever defines the word, defines the world.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
The world is my representation
Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.
It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes.
Song of the Lord
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
