Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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Chapter VI, An Instrument of Revolution, p. 62John Kenneth Galbraith
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat — as is the case with the better artists. But it does not seem right that they stop with the historical themes already given and, so to speak, think that only these are suitable for poetic treatment, because these particular themes, which intrinsically are no more poetic than others, are now again animated and inspirited by a great poetic nature. In this case the artists advance by marching on the spot. — Why are modern heroes and the like not just as poetic? Is it because there is so much emphasis on clothing the content in order that the formal aspect can be all the more finished?
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Karl Kraus
The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.
Paul Halmos
One joins the movement in a valueless world,
Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled,
One moves as well, always toward, toward.Thom Gunn
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