#value

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #more #order #rest #should

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#energy #exists #itself #love is #own

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #measure #qualities #repose #simplicity

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#else #fine #human #human values #valuable

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#concerns #corporate #dominated #fiscal #go

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#between #consumer #difference #item #mind

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#inspirational #patriotic #value #freedom

Dr. Frankl discovered that even under the most inhumane of conditions, one can live a life of purpose and meaning. But for the majority of prisoners at Auschwitz, a meaningful life did not seem possible. Immersed in a world that no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, that robbed them of their will and made them objects to be exterminated, most inmates suffered a loss of their values. If a prisoner did not struggle against this spiritual destruction with a determined effort to save his self-respect, he lost his feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom, and with personal value. His existence descended to the level of animal life, plunging him into a depression so deep that he became incapable of action. No entreaties, no blows, no threats would have any effect on his apathetic paralysis, and he soon died, underscoring the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's observations: "Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded with bread. ↗

— John Chaffee

#freedom

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #believe #belong #great #human

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. ↗

— John Piper

#old #value #age