“The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing Christ and the world. …The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself—a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.”
This World: Playground or Battleground? pp. 5-6
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 133.
"Defeating Darwinism in Our Culture" panel discussion, National Religious Broadcasters meeting, Anaheim, 2000-02-06, as quoted in [2006, Why Darwin matters: the case against intelligent design, Michael, Shermer, New York, Times Books, 978-0-8050-8306-4, [QH366.2.S494, 2006], 2006041243]
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Source: Perspectives on the World: an interdisciplinary reflection. (1995), p. iv
“World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.”
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Audio lectures, Decadence and the New Age (March 10, 1989)
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 19, “Teachers” (p. 83)
Malcolm Gladwell in: Pamela Paul (2014), By the Book: : Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review. p. 238
"Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote02.html - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
Context: We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.