Value (ethics) Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Value (ethics).
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“Let the value of all things be posited newly by you.”
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“A cynic, a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.”
“Try Not To Become a Man of Success But Rather Try To Become a Man of Value”
“When present, it was considered a loincloth; when lost, it is considered fine clothing.”
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“Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.”
“Nothing at all is to be valued, but life should be sweet. You should not serve things; things should serve you.”
“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”
“Values that are expressed but that don't change behavior are not really values, they are lies that you tell yourself.”
“Around the inventors of new values the world revolves: invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve people and fame.”
“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.”
“Of my past wanderings the sole fruit is shame,
And deep repentance, of the knowledge born
That all we value in this world is naught.”
“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”
“τὸ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ὑψηλὸν βδέλυγμα ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ.
• What people value highly is detestable in God's sight.”
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
“Money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”
“The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.”