Relative Worth Quotes

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

The great axioms of political science are deduced from the knowledge of the true political interests of all States: in these general interests lies the security for their existence, while the individual interests,—to which the daily or transitory political movements occasionally lend a great importance, and the promotion of which constitutes political wisdom in the eyes of a restless and short-sighted policy,—possess only a relative and secondary worth.

Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

In art one idea is as good as another.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

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

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

One man’s trash is another man’s dissertation.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.