“Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.”
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
“A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
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