Quotes of: Value-system Keyword

We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a pe...

Guy T. Simpson Jr.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tri...

Jacques Monod

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becom...

Jonathan Sacks

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you'...

Tony Kushner

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every electi...

Matt Damon

The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together in ways that illuminate. T...

Love

This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study of homogeneous systems as well as homogeneous classes. In statistical mechanics a great deal of labor is i...

Atom and Organism: A New Approach to Theoretical Biology

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon de L'Enclos

It never occurs to any of these balloons that someone smoking on school premises isn’t rebelling against the system, we’re not even thinking about the system, we just want a fag. It’s a survival technique, a lot of teachers smoke but no one’s...

The Death of Bees

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Every system of the body is interdependent with every other system. In truth, there is no separating them, any more than you can separate your body and psyche.

The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political c...

An Introduction to Philosophy

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers...

Novalis: Philosophical Writings

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body

Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or the fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Pa...

The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living