T. S. Eliot Quotes

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

I love to champion some of the hardworking actors where, it's been said to me, they don't bring money. But to me, they bring everything. They bring their wonderful selves.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.