“Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.” EyeAbleValuesColorOughtTrainingAppreciationAcquire Author:John Singer Sargent
“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.” MindChildrenLongMadeFactsEyeDesireValuesInterestMoralFailingDemandRemainsHarmContactAcquireEgocentric Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.” MenHeartHas BeensReasonWantedJoyDesireSufferingValuesGoalAnimalCreationCreatingAcquireSignificanceWoe Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.” ValuesProductsLaborAcquireArticlesUniformsUtilityObjectivity Author:Juliet B. Schor