Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey, p.25
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.”
Cited in: Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz (2013) Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. p. 168.
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
“I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
Variant: I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.”
Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 222
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Source: Walden
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Source: Peony in Love
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Sam Harris, "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
2010s
Source: 1930s, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. 322
Context: Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex. It will not be by the mere abolition of these distinctions that society will develop patterns in which individual gifts are given place instead of being forced into an ill-fitting mould. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”
Source: The Mad Ship
“Gold is the corpse of value…”
Economics of gold farming, Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons
Source: Cryptonomicon
Context: Gold, he learned, was considered to be a reliable store of value because extracting it from the ground required a certain amount of effort that tended to remain stable over time. When new, easy-to-mine gold deposits were found, or new mining technologies developed, the value of gold tended to fall. It didn’t take a huge amount of acumen, then, to understand that the value of virtual gold in the game world could be made stable in a directly analogous way: namely, by forcing players to expend a certain amount of time and effort to extract a certain amount of virtual gold…
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 11, p. 187
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Quiet American
Book I, Ch. 20
Attributed
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 2 : Civilizations in History and Today, § 10 : Relations Among Civilizations, p. 51
“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”
What I Know for Sure
50 Years of Boyd K. Packer and Church History http://www.lds.org/church/news/50-years-of-boyd-k-packer-and-church-history Boyd K. Packer, 50 Years Church History, 30 September 2011
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“Books have great value, actions have greater value.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p. 28
Context: Now, what is a myth? The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe - the powers if your own body and of nature.
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)
Context: This year is the International Year for Tolerance. The United Nations has recognized that "tolerance, human rights, democracy and peace are closely related. Without tolerance, the foundations form democracy and respect for human rights cannot be strengthened, and the achievement of peace will remain elusive." My own experience during the years I have been engaged in the democracy movement of Burma has convinced me of the need to emphasize the positive aspect of tolerance. It is not enough simply to "live and let live": genuine tolerance requires an active effort to try to understand the point of view of others; it implies broad-mindedness and vision, as well as confidence in one's own ability to meet new challenges without resorting to intransigence or violence. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued. Their opinions are listened to with respect, they are given their rightful place in shaping the society in which they live.
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Source: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
“Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for”
“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Source: A Feather of Stone
Source: Mostly Harmless
“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”
“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”
Thomas Jefferson, In Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson (1829), Vol. 1, 144
Posthumous publications, On botany
Source: The Quotable Jefferson
Source: The Notebook
“They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142
Attributed
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
