It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.
None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.
One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
On this earth there is that which deserves life.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
Life is priceless even to an ant.
I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.
There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.
We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.
