Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

That which cost little is less valued.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.