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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. -- Coco Chanel
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. -- Johan Huizinga
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. -- Bridget Riley
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science -- Sherwin B. Nuland
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values. -- Benjamin Spock
I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values. -- Harry S. Truman
At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves. -- Philip Gibbs
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values. -- Satish Kumar
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. -- William Ralph Inge
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. -- William Ralph Inge
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news. -- Terence McKenna
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced. -- Malcolm X
The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush. -- Rush Limbaugh
If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society. -- Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality. -- Jeanette Winterson
Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul. -- Michael Beckwith
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. -- Wangari Maathai
We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory. -- Erich Fromm
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence. -- Jacques Ellul
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. -- Luis Barragan
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality. -- Paul Shepard
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake. -- Pablo Picasso
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness. -- Billy Graham
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator. -- Yehuda Berg
You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them. -- Desmond Tutu
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world. -- Hans Rookmaaker
The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality. -- Emilio Pucci
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society. -- Albert Einstein
... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it. -- Malcolm X
But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1). -- Jerry Bridges
Veganism isn't just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship. -- Howard Lyman
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything. -- John B. S. Haldane
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits. -- David Douglas
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people. -- Archibald Rutledge
History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other. -- Alfred Rosenberg
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. -- Paul Valery
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. -- John Ortberg
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. -- Dalai Lama
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. -- Polly Toynbee
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. -- Simone Weil
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. -- Sai Baba
I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. -- Deepak Chopra
You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out. -- Thomas Kinkade
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life. -- Gary Zukav
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. -- Guy Finley
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. -- Jonathan Sacks
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. -- Billy Graham
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures. -- Boyd K. Packer
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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