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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

Life Values Awareness Depends Survival Ultimate Philosophical Mere Contemplation Spiritual Awareness Value Of Life Conscious Awareness

Author:Aristotle

“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”

Whole Certain Values Humanity Race Quality Generations Mankind Type Fit Prove Survival Average Superiors Proportion Drag Homo Sapiens

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”

Art Form Values Culture Language Clear Survival Intellectual Capacity Imaginative Employing

Book:The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

Source: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.”

May Seems Values Dies Mankind Information Acceptance Survival Appreciate Fundamentals Appreciation Prerequisites

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.”

“Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?”

Needs Littles Stills Values Order Courses Fire Needed Survival Candle Requirements Little Money

Book:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Lasts Values Community Environment Share Mines Balance Survival Resources Competition Cooperation Ecosystems Canaries

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?”

“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.”

Way Values Bits Simple Produce Creatures Survival Complicated Avoiding Constraints Flocks Guarded Admonition

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.”

World Values Mankind Danger Survival Profound Secure Our World Positive Values

Book:The Path: A New Look At Reality

Source: The Path: A New Look At Reality

“There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.”

People Self Values House Practice Survival Satisfaction Psychological Adequate Scratches Sense Of Self Birthright Metamorphosis

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.”

Believe Made Values Courses Bears Survival Claims Favors Selection

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.”

Ideas Values Survival Bad Ideas

Author:Karl Popper