“Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.” MenWayDoeHas BeensSometimesPlayWholeUseActionValuesAttitudeStageEvolutionJudgmentConcernedIndependentAffairEvery ManPermitRulersDependenceFree ManPersonal Power Author:Rudolf Rocker
“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.” IfsMenHumansMeanArtPhilosophySpiritualArtistCertainValuesHuman BeingsEffectsProduceTypeEvolutionPerformancesNotesFactorsChiefsErasRejectionThemeHeroicProphecyWaltNew EraPreludeSpiritual EvolutionPrecursor Author:Oscar Wilde
“The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.” ThinkingWayCharacterStoriesShowsValuesSpeakMoralExampleEvolutionMessagesYou Like It Author:Philip Pullman
“I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs.” WorldSchoolValuesLanguageEvolutionFantasticShootingBullshitEscapistsSchool Shooting Author:Blake Butler
“Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.” ProblemValuesSimpleStruggleStageEvolutionMoralityConflictComplexesPatternsEvolve Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.” WayFeelsMeanReasonValuesSocialObjectsEvolutionLessonsSocial Life Author:Richard Dawkins
“There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.” FormValuesEvolutionModelsBuiltIdealsCoreStableFamily LifeFamily ValuesCore ValuesBedrockShowcaseFuture Society Author:Ibrahim Babangida
“The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.” HardValuesGrowsResponsibilityHonestyHard WorkEvolutionHealthyThanksPhenomenonPersonal ResponsibilityBourgeoisBourgeoisie Author:Anne Applebaum
“It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.” WorldHappensValuesIndividualProcessEvolutionPopulationThings HappenEvolveCorporateCorporationsCapabilityUnitsCorporate WorldBiological Evolution Author:Clayton Christensen
“On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.” WorldShouldCountryPlayHandsValuesIndividualSocialRolesModernExampleEvolutionEuropeTradeUnionsWesternChinaIntegratedTrade UnionsSocial Values Author:Zhang Xin
“There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them, mostly importantly really, is to have a brand that has purpose and value.” PurposeValuesAudiencePiecesKeysEvolutionBrandsEngaged Author:Stephanie McMahon
“Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.” NeedsStatesMomentsGovernmentCertainValuesCoursesOpportunityUnitedDealsUnited StatesEconomyEvolutionExpectationsPercentEuropeSizeCriticalSignificantReachingAgreementQuartersAdjustmentCritical MomentsProcurement Author:Michael Froman
“Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop gradually because one-thousandth or one-millionth of an eye would be of no value for survival. So generally this question rules out Darwinism as an adequate theory for macro-evolution.” EyePurposeValuesTakenEvolutionSurvivalEvolveAdaptationDarwinism Author:Ricky Ray
“An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.” ValuesConditionsHonestStrangeEvolutionTerrorismAliensPhenomenonHeritageEgyptObservers Author:Hosni Mubarak
“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.” PhilosophySpiritualValuesHumanityClearSubjectsMankindEvolutionIndiaEndureStatementsComprehensiveSystematicGitaSummarySpiritual Evolution Author:Aldous Huxley
“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?” IfsMenMindHas BeensValuesAnimalDoubtEvolutionConvictionAriseMonkeysTrustworthyDarwinismMonkey Mind Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.” DoeJoyValuesVirtueEvolutionSurvivalUselessOperationsSuspectsFearfulDoomedExtinctionMorose Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.” MeanPersonsGodValuesCultureSpiritualityEvolutionProveUniqueValuableInner PeaceTreasureInternalsSoulfulSpiritual ValuesSpiritual EvolutionProving YourselfPeace Of SoulPersonal Evolution Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen
“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.” NeedsMeanPersonsSoulValuesCultureEasyTermQualityProduceEvolutionDemandProveElementsUniqueValuableCaringTreasureYour SoulInternalsLife ExperienceOutputSoulfulProving YourselfPersonal Evolution Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen
“Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent directionality, a secret impulse, toward increasing depth, increasing intrinsic value, increasing consciousness. In order for evolution to move at all, it must move in those directions-there's no place else for it to go!” MovingValuesOrderSecretConsciousnessEvolutionEmbraceDepthImpulseInherentIntrinsic Value Author:Ken Wilber
“The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.” HumansLongHas BeensScienceValuesCultureBrainEffectsEmotionalMaterialsProductsEvolutionBehaviorCapacityGuidesTechniquePoolGenesHuman BehaviorLeashes Author:E. O. Wilson
“The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on...” IfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentSeemsFormLawValuesUniverseStarsQualityEvolutionElementsPhysicsAtomsStableCollapseMoleculesLaws Of PhysicsDifferent Values Author:Stephen Hawking
“It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.” Has BeensHardValuesUniverseNumbersDesignEvolutionEvidenceStructureImpressionSensitiveCosmicCompellingMinorsMiraculousAlterationsConcurrence Author:Paul Davies
“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.” HumansFormValuesCultureGoalTeachingEvolutionPeriodsCivilizationBenefitsRootsCriticismUltimateMethodChecksObjectivesRelativeImpressStandpointExaggeratedLiableUltimate GoalOther CulturesSprungHuman EvolutionValuationDeprivingRelative Value Author:Franz Boas
“Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.” BelieveValuesIndividualStrongGoalCommonResponsibilityEvolutionGayInstitutionsCoreLike MeTraditionalUsaGay MarriageCore ValuesIndividual ResponsibilityCommon GoalTraditional Marriage Author:Bill O'Reilly