Hugh Hefner Quotes

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Life is essentially a question of values.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

I have no objection to the twist as such, but it does represent some kind of change of our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty, decency, and morality?

I've seen how this thing goes, the waves, the ins and outs of the season.

History goes in cycles.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.