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Values Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about…
- The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
- We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of…
- Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it…
- If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
- Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of…
- The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
- Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner