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Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
intelligence
love
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau
-
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
value
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mistake
oneself
value
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
Albert Einstein
freedom
oneself
value
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.”
Alexandre Dumas (Fils)
value
Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Epistles
value
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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friendship
life
love
others
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Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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Maximes et pensées
value
There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existentialism and Humanism
life
to choose
value
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.”
Epicurus
philosophy
value
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
Milan Kundera
art
imagination
to understand
value
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
Henry David Thoreau
happiness
life
value
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
judgement
life
value
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin
life
time
value
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle
life
value
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
success
value
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”
Noam Chomsky
Democracy
freedom
value
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
Benjamin Franklin
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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