Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I truly believe the way to build a good civilization is to do it on Judaeo-Christian values because whenever you do it… — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Money's greatest intrinsic value - and this can't be overstated - is its ability to give you control over your time .… — Morgan Housel Copy Share Image
“Sex taken violently under threat is an emotional train wreck that derails not only the law but, more importantly, the sanctity of… — Howard Swindle Copy Share Image
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
According to classical utilitarianism, the only intrinsic good is happiness; the only intrinsic bad is pain. That implies no intrinsic value in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
“And so all great music, great prose, everything beautiful must depend upon the sure, free measure with which it is gardened and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Instead, he was mapping a social contract based on “unremitting coercive bargaining” in which individuals treated one another as instruments toward their… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“Take, e. g., that of "a man who, on presenting a leaden coin, receives, by the king's command, a hundred pounds; not… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
