Quotes About Magnitude

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the value-forming substance, the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." John Kenneth Galbraith quoted in Money and Power

When the plane exploded fire went streaking down the wall of night like trails of phosphorous from a firework of unreckonable magnitude and cascaded away in a shower of falling stars, touching the velvet balsams with a profound and eerie beauty.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Advertising," he wrote, "now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.

If you are one in a million in China, you're one of 1,300 people.

There are no small sins against a great God

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.