Original: Oggigiorno, la persona con dei valori la trovi nelle controindicazioni.
Source: prevale.net
“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? ]
“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.
“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.
“Nowadays the world has a conception of love that loses more and more value.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Oggigiorno il mondo ha una concezione dell'amore che perde sempre più valore.
Source: prevale.net
Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section III, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II
“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright
"Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues," page 34.
“Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
#52
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
William Deresiewicz (1964) American literary critic
" The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/," Harper's, September 2015, p. 26
“A stupid person is a person whose values are narrow”
Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author
Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 57
Context: When I'm bored, my sense of values goes to sleep. But it's not dead, only asleep. A crisis can wake it up and make the world seem infinitely important and interesting. But what I need to learn is the trick of shaking them awake myself... And incidentally, another name for the sense of values is intelligence. A stupid person is a person whose values are narrow.
