Eric Wolf Quotes

In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.

Eric Wolf

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• Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Many
  • Democrats
  • Worldview

• I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Trying
  • Religious

• Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

• What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Future
  • Strategy
  • World Changes

• To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.

  

  Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
  • Society
  • Invention
  • Thinkers

• Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Existence
  • Accepting
  • Scientist

• When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Christianity
  • Enlightenment
  • Worldview

• I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Bridge
  • Worldview
  • Homage

• If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Don't Know
  • Worldview
  • Humanistic

• When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Survival
  • Harmony
  • Inspires

• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Science
  • Church
  • Religion

• I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

  

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones
  • Opportunity
  • Government
  • Should

• Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Violence
  • Horror

• She's vibrator dependent.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Dependent

• My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Crisis

• I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.

  

  Eric Wolf
  • Worldview
  • World Changes
  • Conceptions of the universe