Quotes About Value

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.

Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor. Anyone who has not looked death in the face does not know this, but I know it ...

It takes so little, a tiny puff of air, for things to shift imperceptibly and whatever it was that a man was ready to lay down his life for a few seconds earlier, seems suddenly to be sheer nonsense

Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.

Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.

?ovjek sve proživljava prvi put i bez priprema. Kao glumac koji igra predstavu bez ikakve probe. Pa koliko onda vrijedi život ako je prva proba života ve? život sam? Život je zato uvijek sli?an skici.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false. Men grow old, the end grows near, each moment becomes more and more valuable and there is no time to waste on recollection. It's important to understand the mathematical paradox in nostalgia, that it is most powerful in early youth , when the volume of life that has passed is quite small.

A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful shell.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.

Toda repetición es solo una imitación y toda imitación carece de valor.

necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Não existe meio de verificar qual é a boa decisão, pois não existe termo de comparação. Tudo é vivido pela primeira vez e sem preparação. Como se um ator entrasse em cena sem nunca ter ensaiado. Mas o que pode valer a vida, se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

una decisión de peso, va unida a la voz del destino; el peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: sólo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale.

Not until later did she understand that the word woman on which he had placed such uncommon emphasis, did not, in his eyes, signify one of the two human sexes; it represented a value. Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.

Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam

La cultura sucumbe bajo el volumen de la producción, la avalancha de letras, la locura de la cantidad. Por ese motivo te digo que un libro prohibido en tu país significa infinitamente más que los millones de palabras que vomitan nuestras universidades.

Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

Stalin's son laid down his life for shit. But a death for shit is not a senseless death.

Schwere, Notwendigkeit und Wert sind drei eng zusammenhängende Begriffe: nur das Notwendige ist schwer, nur was wiegt, hat Wert.

El peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: solo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale

El sueño no solo es una mensaje, sino también una actividad estética, un juego de la imaginación que representa un valor en sí mismo. El sueño es una prueba de que la fantasía, la ensoñación referida a lo que no ha sucedido, es una de las más profundas necesidades del hombre. Esta es la raíz de la traicionera peligrosidad del sueño. Si el sueño no fuera hermoso, sería posible olvidarlo rápidamente.