Quotes for All
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
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. Eleanor Roosevelt
Yes, there’s a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it’s got real value. Edward Ruscha
The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy. Edward Bernays
Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves. Eckhart Tolle
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science. Frederick Soddy
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Modern man has no real \”value\” for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a \”thing\” in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the \”good\” of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things … Read more
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if … Read more