Quotes About Values

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.