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“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”

Certain Values Degrees Neurotic Psychologist Neurosis

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.”

Values Higher Degrees Ideals Obsessed Fidelity Unhealthy

Author:Dan Savage

“Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.”

Mind Has Beens Art Ideas Age Spiritual Values Economic Activity Degrees Trade Productions Intense Remarkable Exception Regions Manifest Spiritual Values Locality

Author:Paul Valery

“I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.”

Thinking Play Character Certain Values Actors Huge Degrees Presses Staying Target Radar

Author:Liev Schreiber

“When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.”

Looks Real States Values Fighting Challenges United United States One Thing Degrees Communism Eras Adversaries New Era

Author:David E. Hoffman

“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.”

Country Would Be Values Poor Pay Revolution Degrees Benefits Discovery Concerned Soldier Delight Payment Newton Enchanted Milton

Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.”

Ifs Whole Facts Values Knowledge Conditions Goodness Degrees Elements Foundation Historical Valuable Posse Historical Facts

Book:Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

Different Use Values Language Force Essentials Degrees Shadow Assuming Appearance Painter Sufficient Opposition Shade Rationality Lighters True And False Different Values

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.”

Years Humans Ideas Values Religious Degrees Majors Tradition Extraordinary Insight Enormous Human Experience Theological Breathtaking Religious Traditions

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.”

“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”

Mind Reality Age Past Purpose Values Wish Middle Type Periods Degrees Praise Nostalgia Eras Etc Middle Ages Present Day Implied Downgrading

Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.”

Ifs Values Fantasy Taste Degrees Everyday Preserves Stability Everyday Life Continuity Imposing

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

Values Power Degrees Assuming Will Power

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”

Wells Country States Values Building Materials Degrees Increase Woods Architecture Improvement Permanent Acquisition Ornaments Edifice

Book:Notes on the State of Virginia

Source: Notes on the State of Virginia