I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
Criss JamiTags: motivational happiness joy value worth hard-work greater-good value-of-work fighting-battles greater-glory
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
John CageTags: curiosity awareness value
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Mira GrantTags: life death right value worth moral wall
Why do they make things so complicated?"
"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value."
"It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.
Tags: understanding value meaning-in-life
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
ConfuciusTags: virtues value loyalty precious-things treasures good-faith
If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.
Steven E. LandsburgTags: economics clowns value baking olympics
There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don't cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don't bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal!
C. JoyBell C.Tags: inspirational-quotes value worth blue-diamonds blue-roses
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 becomes a world without value.
Jonathan SacksTags: reason morality value relativism
We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.
H.P. LovecraftTags: truth atheism conformity emotion atheist honor value absurdity evidence indoctrination orthodox bias cheat brainwashing falsity religionists
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We’re increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.
Lev GrossmanTags: literature subjectivity value proust relativism objectivity in-search-of-lost-time a-shore-thing snooki
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