#2,841

“Meaning,” “significance,” “importance,” are terms which do not merely designate transitive relations.
There are things with meaning, significance, importance, in themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,830

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,607

We should only encourage someone to do something that is worth doing because it is worth it.
Goodness for goodness’s sake, truth for truth’s sake, art for art’s sake.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 421

#2,483

Discipline, order, hierarchy, are aesthetic values.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,473

Man rarely understands that nothing is permanent, but that some things are immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#2,420

The indemonstrability of values makes obvious opinions seem daring to one who does not see values.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,126

When we make a value judgment let us never invoke authorities.
The value judgment testifies to itself. Every argument degrades it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 347

#2,056

We should not be frightened: what we admire does not die.
Nor be delighted: neither does what we detest.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 333

#1,938

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,925

The absolutist wishes for a sovereign force that will subdue all others, the liberal a multitude of weak forces that will neutralize each other.
But the axiological commandment decrees hierarchies of multiple vigorous and active forces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,910

All earthly splendor is the labor of astounded hands, because no splendor depends on the human will.
Because all splendor refutes the radical assertion of sin.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,750

Everything that has value in the world is incongruous to it, and the world does not drag it along into the sunset.
Our past happinesses await us at the end of the day’s journey to anoint our injured feet.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,730

Man’s different postures place him before different values.
There exists no privileged position from which to observe the conjunction of all values into one single value.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,679

In aristocratic times what has value is priceless; in democratic times what is priceless has no value.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,481

History owes its importance to the values that emerge there, not to the masses of men who are shipwrecked there.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 249

#1,264

Values, like souls for the Christian, are born in history but are immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,037

Values are not citizens of this world, but pilgrims from other heavens.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 185

#1,025

Values, like the soul, are born in time, but do not belong to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 183

#959

We should resign ourselves to the fact that nothing lasts, but refuse to hasten anything’s demise.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 173

#943

Revelation is the value that suddenly supervenes on a psychological event.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 170