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“The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.”

Lying Values Goal Sake Pursued

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.”

Way Doe Ends Values Creatures Capacity Sake Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Thomas Merton

“Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.”

People Doe Values Growth Liberty Sun Virtue Morality Relation Sake Weed Temperance

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.”

Men Mind Seems Values Order Turns Force Accepting Moral Sacrifice Willing He Man Capable Standards Sake Objectives Peace Of Mind Subjective Theoretical Opposing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.”

Children God Eye Mother Values Sake Stores His Eyes Treasury Relics

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.”

Men Values Jesus Prayer Sake Intimate Communion

Book:Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

Source: Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”

Men Love Wells Eye Values Pay Angel Gold Sake Rings Bread Worth It One Love Lure Touchstones Bread And Butter

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.”

“In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.”

Art Facts Poetry Values Literature Importance Aim Structure Sake Symbols Primaries Interconnected Motifs

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'”

Men Values Names Differences Attention Generations Creation Divine Draws Men And Women Sake Gender Ideology Opposition Communion Subordinates Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Pope Francis