Quotes about Value

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

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.

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

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

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.