Quotes About Values

There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act.

One does not bargain over inches of evil.

The theme is the evil of divorcing ideals from life.

Sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values.

Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness." Keating

Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not "selflessness" or "sacrifice," but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one's convictions and values; it is the policy of acting in accordance with one's values, of expressing, upholding and translating them into practical reality. If a man professes to love a woman, yet his actions are indifferent, inimical or damaging to her, it is his lack of integrity that makes him immoral.

Acepta el hecho de que lograr tu felicidad es el único objetivo moral de tu vida, y que la felicidad..., no el dolor ni las extravagancias irresponsables, es la prueba de tu integridad moral, ya que es la prueba y el resultado de tu lealtad al logro de tus valores.

Barre a un lado a esos parásitos de academia subsidiados, que viven de las ganancias de la mente de otros y proclaman que el hombre no necesita moral, ni valores, ni código de conducta. Esos, que se consideran científicos y aseguran que el hombre es sólo un animal, al que no conceden en el mapa de la existencia el lugar que le han concedido al más insignificante de los insectos.

Here, we trade achievements, not failures—values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together.

Cuando alguien acusa a otro de no tener sentimientos, ello significa que tal persona es justa. Que se trata de un ser cuyas emociones nunca carecen de base, de alguien que nunca otorgará sentimientos que el otro no merezca. Significa que sentir es ir contra la razón, contra los valores morales y contra la realidad.

Be it a highwayman who confronts a traveler with the ultimatum: 'Your money or your life,' or a politician who confronts a country with the ultimatum: 'Your children's education or your life,' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'—and neither is possible to man without the other. "If there are degrees

La felicidad es un estado de alegría no contradictoria, una alegría sin pena ni culpa, una alegría que no choca con ninguno de tus valores y que no te lleva a tu propia destrucción; no es la alegría de escapar de tu mente, sino la de usar su poder total; no es la alegría de disimular la realidad, sino la de alcanzar valores reales; no es la alegría de un borracho, sino la de un productor.

Love is our response to our highest values. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

The integrated sum of a man's basic values is his sense of life.

What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for centuries, had been the near-monopoly of religion: ethics--not the particular content of religious ethics, but the abstraction ethics, the realm of values, man's code of good and evil, with the emotional connotations of height, uplift, nobility, reverence, grandeur, which pertain to the realm of man's values, but which religion has arrogated to itself.

The issue now is men's lack of integrity, their failure to act according to the ideals they espouse.

conformarse con un trabajo que requiere menos que la plena capacidad de tu mente es apagar tu motor y sentenciarte a la decadencia; de que nuestro trabajo es el proceso de alcanzar nuestros valores, y de que perder nuestra ambición por los valores es perder nuestra ambición de vivir; de que nuestro cuerpo es una máquina, pero nuestra mente es su conductor, y se debe conducir tan lejos como nos lleve nuestra mente

That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Oh, I don't think he approves of marriage. Not that he preaches anything immoral, but he's always told me marriage is old-fashioned, an economic device to perpetuate the institution of private property, or something like that or anyway that he doesn't like it.

In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.

But since the work of man's mind is not automatic, his values, like all his premises, are product either of his thinking or of his evasions: man chooses his values by a conscious process of thought–or accepts them by default, by subconscious associations, on faith, on someone's authority, by some form of social osmosis or blind imitation. Emotions are produced by man's premises, held consciously or subconsciously, explicitly or implicitly.

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the deadliest and most crucial: the alleged dichotomy of science and ethics. It is the doctrine that man's science and ethics - or his knowledge and values, or his body and soul - are two separate, antagonistic aspects of his existence, and that man is caught between them, as a precarious, permanent traitor to their conflicting demands.