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Values Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and…
- What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking…
- He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
- You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
- If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even…
- Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a…
- The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given…
- You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- 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
- Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli