"Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people."

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Source : JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”

John Barth

#People Quotes #Valuable Quotes #Values Quotes

“You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.”
“Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.”
“Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.”
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”
“Taste is improved by cultivation.”
“Anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.”
“Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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