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Max Otto, fully Max Carl Otto

To save one’s soul is not an instantaneous deed, but a life-long adventure… The creation of a type of personality through loyalty to concrete values as these are at issue in everyday experience.

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If you want to find out how well you are living up to your spiritual values and higher principles, pay close attention to how you behave in the middle of an argument or a tense moment involving someone you live with, work with, or are in love with.

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Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr

The road to unity is the road to repentance. It demands resolute turning away from all those loyalties to the lesser values of the self, the denomination, and the nation, which deny the inclusiveness of divine love.

Love | Repentance | Self | Unity |

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Nezahualcoyotl NULL

Banish care. If there be bounds to pleasure, the saddest life must also have an end. Then weave your wreath of flowers, and sing your songs in praise of the all-powerful God; for the glory of this world soon fades away.

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Robert Nozick

For a life to have meaning it must connect with other things or values beyond itself… To see something’s limits is to question its meaning.

Life | Life | Meaning | Question |

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A study of comparative religion gives insight into the values of the various faiths, values which transcend different symbols and creeds and in transcending penetrate to the depths of the spiritual consciousness where the symbols and formulas shrink into insignificance.

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Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin

A human life can have meaning without an objective purpose, value, or pattern. We can construct our own values and purposes in a morally patternless world.

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Sydney Smith

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.

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Keith Ward

A human life can have meaning without an objective purpose, value or pattern. We can construct our own values in a morally patternless world.

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William H. Whyte, Jr., fully William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte

[Groupthink] is rationalized conformity – an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right as and good as well.

Conformity | Good | Philosophy | Right |

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Alexander Berkman

The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight.

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Hank Dittmar

If we surrender our towns, countryside, and cities to the car, we will also be surrendering many other values that we hold dear: neighborhood life, a sense of history and place, a feeling of belonging somewhere.

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James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.