We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: politics virtue values value adversary
God must have a weird sense of values, and if there’s a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He’s going to have a lot to answer for.
Philip ApplemanTag: god atheism values judgement-day
[I]t's difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having are the things you find out for yourself. Also, that when so many brands of what Chesterton calls 'fancy souls' and theories of life are offered you, there is no sense in not looking pretty carefully to see what you are going in for. [...] It isn't a case of 'Here is the Christian religion, the one authoritative and respectable rule of life. Take it or leave it'. It's 'Here's a muddling kind of affair called Life, and here are nineteen or twenty different explanations of it, all supported by people whose opinions are not to be sneezed at. Among them is the Christian religion in which you happpen to have been brought up. Your friend so-and-so has been brought up in quite a different way of thinking; is a perfectly splendid person and thoroughly happy. What are you going to do about it?' -- I'm worrying it out quietly, and whatever I get hold of will be valuable, because I've got it for myself; but really, you know, the whole question is not as simple as it looks.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: life meaning-of-life christianity self-determination spirituality values diversity guidance
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: values post-modernism modernity values-in-life post-modern modern-values
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom intelligence priorities values truths wealth-and-virtues modern-values
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: celebrity values sports role-models celebrities sportsmanship role-model celebrity-culture sportsman modern-values
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
Ayn RandTag: innocence injustice morality freedom morals justice values law guilt innocent
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
Jasper FfordeTag: values
I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
Ashly LorenzanaTag: morality people addiction drugs struggle values meth
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