Quotes About Value

As the life of a society becomes more complex, and the division of labor differentiates men into diverse occupations and trades, it becomes more and more unlikely that all these services will be equally valuable to the group;

There is nevertheless a value in painting these pictures of our desire; man's significances is that he can image a better world, and will some part of it at least into reality; man is an animal that makes Utopias. (p.47/543)

How little you know the age you live in, says a god in Ovid, if you fancy that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

There is nevertheless a value in painting these pictures of our desire; man's significances is that he can image a better world, and will some part of it at least into reality; man is an animal that makes Utopias. (Chapter on Plato p.47/543)

One work of genius is worth a thousand commentaries.

That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only

That was my best hat and it was attached to my best head.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun.

In a time of dearth, come forth with weight and measure.

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

Life might be cheap on Terra ... but living wasn't.

the lowest price nor the highest quality, but the depth and consistency of the human interactions between a company and its customers.

First must come the transposition of the faculties to the only world of reality that men know : the world of the imagination, wholly our own. From this world alone does the work gain power, its soil the only one whose chemistry is perfect to the purpose. The exaltation men feel before a work of art is the feeling of reality they draw from it. It sets them up, places a value upon experience – (said that half a dozen times already).

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near, Bayard. I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it. There are not many dreams in the world, but there are a lot of human lives. And one human life or two dozen——" "Are not worth anything?" "No. Not anything.—Listen.

Quién pagaría una buena cantidad por una virginidad que no puede violar más tarde, aunque solo fuera para asegurarse de que era auténtica?

Any live man is better than any dead man.

El dinero no vale nada; lo que te compras sí.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Un hombre vivo es mejor que un hombre muerto, pero ningún hombre vivo o muerto es mucho mejor que otro hombre vivo o muerto.