This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The real measure of our wealth is our worth if we lost our money.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Daniel Boorstin, fully Daniel Joseph Boorstin
A sign of celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
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Dagobert Runes, fully Dabovert David Runes
If tomorrow were never to come it would not be worth living today.
We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
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Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age generally makes men more tolerant; youth is always discontented. The tolerance of age is the result of the ripeness of a judgment which, not merely as the result of indifference, is satisfied even with what is inferior, but, more deeply taught by the grave experience of life, has been led to perceive the substantial, sold worth of the object in question. The insight then to which - in contradistinction fro those ideals - philosophy is to lead us, is, that the real world is as it ought to be, that the truly good, the universal divine reason, is not a mere abstraction, but a vital principle capable of realizing itself.
Age | Experience | Good | Grave | Ideals | Indifference | Insight | Judgment | Life | Life | Men | Object | Philosophy | Question | Reason | World | Worth | Youth | Youth |