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Values Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in…
- The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
- Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
- The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
- Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
- The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
- Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by…
- A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking…
- My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in…
- I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of…
- A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not…
- Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
- The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…
- You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for…
- Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- [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
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov