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“not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.”

Values Interest Judging Setting Settings Falsehood Not Judging

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.”

Humans Stories Values Fall Human Beings Our Lives Despair Evidence Patterns Contrary Setting Settings Depressing Chaotic

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.”

Whole Values Groups Setting Settings Labels Enterprise Irrelevant

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.”

Humans Made Happens Beautiful Values Universe Wonder Sun Human Nature Worthy Setting Settings Rising Unusual Amazed Eclipse Eclipse Of The Sun

Author:Gerald of Wales

“Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.”

Men Way Would Be Values Paper Men And Women Distance Brave Setting Settings Pens Considering Unseen Signals Unborn Nameless

Book:The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser

Source: The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser

“The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.”

People Writing Whole Values Individual Process Results Distance Setting Settings Realms

Book:Under My Skin

Source: Under My Skin

“I believe that every life , irrespective of its events and setting, holds something of unique value, which it should be possible to communicate, if only one can first see one's experiences honestly and then set them down without too much dressing-up”

Ifs Should Firsts Believe Values I Believe Too Much Events Unique Communicate Honestly Setting Settings Dressings Dressing Up

Author:Iris Origo

“Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value cannot be ascertained because the transaction is not made by private parties exchanging their own resources in a market setting.”

Made Government Values Party Resources Finals Valuable Spending Income Setting Settings Transfers Transactions Government Spending Exchanging Private Parts

Author:Robert Higgs

“True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.”

Values Pride Setting Settings Modesty

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.”

People Thinking Feels Reason Values Doubt Dangerous Morality Scientist Regard Setting Settings Journalist Encounters Application Academic Consistently Value Of Life

Author:Sam Harris