“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.” MaySeemsValuesDiesMankindInformationAcceptanceSurvivalAppreciateFundamentalsAppreciationPrerequisites Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.” WantValuesDiesFunSocialForgetDirtyCampsAshesRedeemingSocial ValuesNudists Author:L. Neil Smith
“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.” ArtSelfFormArtistValuesDiesCreationArt IsHolinessParadoxWorks Of ArtAffirmationBlundersRebuttal Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.” SoulBodyValuesDiesDeeperPortions Author:Jon Foreman
“TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.” IfsKnowsWantTryingHumansLongHelpingSeemsFacesDesireValuesDiesHuman BeingsSimpleImpossibleLogicCeaseConclusionImmortalityReasoningSomedayImmortalLogicalOddsNeverthelessEvidentConstructiveHuman FacesWagers Author:Zoltan Istvan
“On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!” FirstsMeanEnoughTodayLastsTimeValuesDiesChristianityMankindWallEternalLettersInstinctFollowingRevengeCurseImmortalWhy NotCalamityLast DayPoisonousDepravitySecretiveIndictment Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.” PeopleNeedsChildrenEnoughValuesDiesLeadershipPoorTechnologyHealthEqualEthicsInnovationHuman RightsIdeologyReasonableNutritionToiletsEqual RightsAffordableBasic NeedsPoor Children Author:Bill Gates
“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!” ArtHardFactsValuesDiesCultureBeliefStudyFeministObjectivesScholarshipIdeologicalExcludedBiasedNeutrality Author:Adrienne Rich