Quotes About Values

Thus, our religious attitude may be considered an aspect of our character structure, for we are what we are devoted to, and what we are devoted to is what motivates our conduct.

are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern—and to take the jump and stake everything on these values.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

Yeni bilim'in geliÅŸmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiÅŸ Avrupa'da, dinsel deÄŸerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi baÅŸgöstermiÅŸtir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu ÅŸu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiÅŸtir: Tanr? yoksa, her ÅŸey mümkündür.

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!

Nauda boj? raksturu.

Tas ir sav?di: pien?kuma apzi?a cilv?kam ir pirms divdesmit pieciem un p?c tr?sdesmit pieciem gadiem; pirmaj? reiz? aiz ide?lisma, v?l?k aiz praktiskiem apsv?rumiem. - Pa vidu ir untumu un neapr??in?mu ideju laiks.

The ego will receive the reward of moral recognition by the collective to the exact extent to which it succeeds in identifying with the persona, the collectivized façade personality – the simple reason being that this façade personality is the visible sign of agreement with the values of the collective.

by identifying his personal ego with the transpersonal in the shape of the collective values, the limited individual loses contact with his own limitations and becomes inhuman.

Inexorably history destroys all 'eternal' and 'absolute' values and demonstrates the relativity of every absolute point of reference which we seek to establish. Hence the fanatical opposition to anything historical—or scorn for it which takes the form of unscrupulous distortion—on the part of those who wish to establish definitive, binding norms.

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

I sometimes feel, the president wrote, that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.

it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

Coveting power for power's sake was a "base" pursuit

to remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.

I know it is difficult now you are living with so many rich people, only do try & save a bit on your messing bills, etc. Remember baby Winston & I are willing to starve for you, but we would prefer not to.

In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown "Loop," named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines.

Personally, I wouldn't have a man who was true to me, not that I'd want him to flaunt his affairs in my face or to the neighborhood, but a man who doesn't step out once in a while isn't worth the powder and shot to blow him to hell.

If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.

he did not believe in philanthropy, thinking that the ultimate purpose of life was to develop character; that the more a person came to depend on outside assistance, the more his character was weakened.

When humor goes, there goes civilization

This is how we understand depressive psychosis today: as a bogging down in the demands of others—family, job, the narrow horizon of daily duties. In such a bogging down the individual does not feel or see that he has alternatives, cannot imagine any choices or alternate ways of life, cannot release himself from the network of obligations even though these obligations no longer give him a sense of self-esteem, of primary value, of being a heroic contributor to world life even

ideological conflicts between cultures are essentially battles between immortality projects