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Values Quotes by David Hume
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected…
- There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric…
- [A personÂ’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
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- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
- 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