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“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality”
Ayn Rand
“The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
Samuel Johnson
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
Erich Fromm
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”
Carl Rogers
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.”
Georges Duhamel
