Quotes About Value

They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.

A gramme is always better than a damn.

Las prímulas y los paisajes, explicó, tienen un grave defecto: son gratuitos. El amor a la Naturaleza no da quehacer a las fábricas.

Éste es el precio que debemos pagar por la estabilidad. Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro.

Porque es antiguo; ésta es la razón principal. Aquí las cosas antiguas no nos son útiles. —¿Aunque sean bellas? —Especialmente cuando son bellas. La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

But value dwells no in particular will, said the Savage. It holds his estimate and dignity as well wherein 'tis precious of itself as in the prizer.

Bernard consideraba que el Golf Electromagnético era una pérdida de tiempo. —Pues, ¿para qué es el tiempo, si no?

But there's a hard core of sense. If you're a Tantrik, you don't renounce the world or deny its value; you don't try to escape into a Nirvana apart from life, as the monks of the Southern School do. No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

Her ÅŸeyin ula??labilir olduÄŸu bir dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin anlam? yoktur

Lo que ustedes necesitan es algo con lágrimas, para variar. Aquí nada cuesta lo bastante.

Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't.

Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

One can't have something for nothing.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

Lenina'y? hem arzuluyor hem de bu arzudan utan?yordu. Lenina'ya lây?k deÄŸildi... Bir an gözleri buluÅŸtu, ne hazineler vaat ediyordu gözleri! Paha biçilmez hazineler.[...] Bir an gelir de kendini Lenina'ya lây?k hisseder diye belli belirsiz bir korkuya kap?ld?.

Bedelsiz hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. MutluluÄŸun bedelinin ödenmesi gerekir. Siz bu bedeli ödüyorsunuz Bay Watson; ödüyorsunuz, çünkü güzellikle fazla ilgileniyorsunuz. Ben de gerçekle fazla ilgilenmiÅŸtim; ben de bedelini ödedim.

one of Huxley's points: in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!

No, ogni uomo nobile e saggio ama la sua donna e ne ha cura come io con tutto il cuore amavo la mia, e non importava se era una schiava di guerra. (Achille, da Omero, Iliade)

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

Most scientific research today is funded by governments. To justify this research, the officials running the government must believe that the research has value to voters or to their own agendas.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.