Quotes About Value

The main point, it seems to me, is to maintain a life of active risk and affection, while helping the body along the path of decay, remembering always that the value of life does not consist in its length but in its depth.

I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings – certain basic goods, including life itself, that cannot be taken away from them unless they in some way forfeit them. Life

Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness

It is part of our rational nature to strive for a community of judgement, a shared conception of value, since that is what reason and the moral life require.

Oscar Wilde defined the cynic as the one who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

I wonder as to the value of consciousness," said Jack, "if it does not change the nature of a beast.

You are one of the few successful persons I know. Me? Why? You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well. But I don't really do much of anything. And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success. By not giving a damn? But I do, you know. Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

My books were all on their shelves. Nobody steals books but your friends.

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short, to depreciate love, I persist, I know, I know, but all the same...

I counter whatever doesn't work in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile

Who knows? Maybe something valuable in these notes?

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind.

Since money meant nothing to them, they had to stress the sentimental value of gifts.

I have always wished, simply as a matter of satisfaction to myself, that my salary might represent the real value of my services in the office, while as it is and has been in the past it represents rather your generosity.

During one ghastly period in 1779, the continental dollar shed half its value in three weeks.

My change is five cents short," Rockefeller declared.

Such habits were not simply reflexive stinginess but were rooted in bedrock beliefs about the value of money.

Never a great believer in book learning, Bill probably derided a college degree as a costly indulgence at a time when people didn't equate it with enhanced income.

Extremely punctual for all appointments, he said, "A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.