Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine a...
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its str...
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; o...
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not t...
Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult...
morality means giving common concerns or the wellbeing of others as much weight as one’s own self-interest. Moral behaviour in this sense can be found in any society, because it is the glue that sticks individuals together and so makes society poss...
To a dog a bone has more value than a pearl.
If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measure...
Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the...
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
Books have great value, actions have greater value.
What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.
You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.
