Synonyms:
values
Meaning: beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); "he has very conservatives values"
Usage examples
Food values are not measured by the pleasure afforded the palate.
He says: "Nor is it of consequence that Paul values comparatively lightly, having known him in the flesh."
Better than larger values, However true their show; This timid life of evidence Keeps pleading, "I don't know."
This change was sudden, extreme, and temporary, and there has since been a gradual adjustment and a return to the former values.
Nature's values are imputed to her retroactively by spirit, which in its material dependence has a logical and moral primacy of its own.
Indeed, the principle just discussed is no more than one phase of the law of economic diminishing returns, which has a universal application to the realm of values.
On the other hand, man always needs a market for his products; unable to compare values of different kinds, he is satisfied to judge approximately, according to his passion and caprice; and he engages in dishonest commerce, which always results in wealth and poverty.
And yet so true is it that the world loves its own, that all men worship talent, and even bodily strength and bodily beauty, while only one here and one there either understands or values or pursues moral character, though it is the strength and the beauty and the sweetness of the soul.