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Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.