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Values Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
- You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
- Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that…
- Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
- I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- 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
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- 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