Devaluate Quotes & Sayings

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day each week. — Richard Branson

Familiarity breeds indifference. We have seen too much pure, bright color at Woolworth's to find it intrinsically transporting. And here we may note that, by its amazing capacity to give us too much of the best things, modern technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. — Aldous Huxley

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause. — Walter Benjamin

[ ... ] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste. — Aldous Huxley

He somehow knew it was more important to be reassuring, to seem to be in command of the situation, than to be right. And he was always willing to give in when he was found out to be wrong. The — Jan Ellison

I'm dead, right? I did drown. Crap, crap, crap! This is gonna kill Charlie. — Stephenie Meyer

A team of researchers at the University of Oregon explored the link between cognitive control and intelligence in several ways, including an attempt to raise intelligence by improving the control of attention. — Daniel Kahneman

To the people who were going to be replaced by machines, maybe. A third one, eh? In a way, I guess the third one's been going on for some time, if you mean thinking machines. That would be the third revolution, I guess - machines that devaluate human thinking. Some of the big computers like EPICAC do that all right, in specialized fields. — Kurt Vonnegut

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass. — Frank Sinatra