Quotes about Value

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.

The master was odd. I was kind and just to my dependants, but I excited in them a shrinking, half-contemptuous pity; for this class of men and women are but slightly determined in their estimate of others by general considerations, or even experience, of character. They judge of persons as they judge of coins, and value those who pass current at a high rate.

We see human heroism broken into units and say, this unit did little—might as well not have been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.