Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
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.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.
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.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Oh, that simplicity and innocence never recognise themselves and their sacred value!
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before the world at large.
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.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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.
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.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of 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.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
