Quotes About Values

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

It is because of of Freud, Jung, Nietzsche—and Orwell—that I always wonder, "What, then, do you stand against?" whenever I hear someone say, too loudly, "I stand for this!" The question seems particularly relevant if the same someone is complaining, criticizing, or trying to change someone else's behaviour.

there are catastrophes lurking at the extremes of every moral continuum.

If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.

we cannot invent our own values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls

Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong. Start stopping today. Don't waste time questioning how you know that what you're doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.

You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse.

The idea that human life can be free of moral concerns is a fantasy.

Don't cast pearls before swine, as the old saying goes. And you might think that's harsh. But training your child not to sleep, and rewarding him with the antics of a creepy puppet? That's harsh too. You pick your poison, and I'll pick mine.

Bread is of little use to the man who has betrayed his soul, even if he is currently starving.

If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

Las reglas claras y la disciplina apropiada ayudan al niño, a la familia y a la sociedad a establecer, mantener y expandir el orden, que es todo lo que nos protege del caos y de los terrores del inframundo, allí donde todo es incierto, donde todo provoca ansiedad, desesperanza y depresión. No hay mejor regalo que unos padres responsables y valientes. No permitas que tus hijos hagan cosas que detestes.

Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

respect for the rules, except when following those rules means disregarding or ignoring or remaining blind to an even higher moral principle

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism

Leave aside that telling people you're virtuous isn't a virtue, it's self-promotion. Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

What shall I do with my wife? Treat her as if she is the Holy Mother of God, so that she may give birth to the world-redeeming hero. What shall I do with my daughter? Stand behind her, listen to her, guard her, train her mind, and let her know it's OK if she wants to be a mother. What shall I do with my parents? Act such that your actions justify the suffering they endured. What shall I do with my son? Encourage him to be a true Son of God.