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Value Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
- To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
- The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
- For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image…
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
More Value Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius