The question whether truth is necessary, must not merely be affirmed beforehand, but must be affirmed to such an extent that the principle, belief, or conviction finds expression, that there is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only a secondary value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Thomas Alva Edison

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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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