Quotes About Intrinsic

She dismissed his puzzled frown with a wave.—We're deeper than we can see. There are other people down inside us doing things. We get carried along by what they do.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

We are religious by nature.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

It is precisely the lack of explicit objectives determined by external parties that fascinates children.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.

Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In

If something exists—it is by definition natural.

We need to be reminded that our value as human beings is something bestowed on us by God regardless of our marital status.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Knowledge of God never needs to be instilled in people by coercion or violence, nor by logical argumentation or compelling proofs, but belongs to humans by their very nature and arises spontaneously and automatically.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

It's a natural human impulse

You knew about that?" Nearly thirty years later, the memory was still embarrassing. I worried what it said about me. At best it seemed to point to some intrinsic foolishness, a deep-seated eccentricity that lurked within me still.

Lives are beyond price, and to treat them as if they have some kind of barter value is obscene.

Life is worthwhile in itself

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.