“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde, book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variant: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.

“Nowadays the true transgressors are those who possess values.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale <br class="br">Original: (it) Oggigiorno i veri trasgressori sono coloro che possiedono dei valori.

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Most of the people are placing too much emphasis of their happiness on price, rather than on value.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Nowadays, having the heart "of other times" is not a defect, but an added value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Al giorno d'oggi, avere il cuore "d'altri tempi" non è un difetto, ma un valore aggiunto.

“People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.”

Calvin Mooers (1919–1994) American computer scientist

Attributed to Mooers (1959) in Eugene Garfield (1997) "A Tribute To Calvin N. Mooers, A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval." The Scientist, Vol:11, #6, p. 9, March 17, 1997

“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death&quot;&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)

“What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.”

Martin Heidegger book Introduction to Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics (1953) — a publication of lectures of 1935.

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

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