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- No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are…
- Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
- The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died…
- [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
- Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the…
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape…
- In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms…
- The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
- Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
- Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the…
- An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy…
- A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
- Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.…
- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your…
- Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person,…
- Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
- Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of…
- The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,…
- I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to…
- Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
- Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.
- The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
- In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. — Karen Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba