Human nature Quote by Anonymous

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

— Anonymous

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a…

— Stephen Schwartz

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

— John Barth

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We often don't value what comes naturally to us because we think that everyone must have those abilities.

— Jen Sincero

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it…

— Maimonides

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

— Goran Persson

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how…

— Hal Elrod

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

— Alice Hegan Rice

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

— Emma Stone

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily…

— M Kathleen Casey

The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be…

— George Monbiot