„The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
„The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.“
— Carl Gustav Jung, libro Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Origine: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Contesto: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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— C.G. Jung, libro Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Origine: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
— Stephen Fry, libro Moab Is My Washpot
Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Origine: Moab Is My Washpot
Contesto: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.
„It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.“
— Sarah Dessen, libro Along for the Ride
Origine: Along for the Ride
„Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.“
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983
Sections 128 - 129
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Contesto: Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.... It is thus with most of us: we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
„The amazing thing about cities is that they're worth so much more than it costs to build them.“
— Paul Romer American economist 1955
TED 2011 "The world's first charter city?" https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer_the_world_s_first_charter_city
„Some things in life are worth waiting for.“
— Danielle Steel American author of romance novels 1947
„At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.“
— Scott Westerfeld, libro Pretties
Origine: Pretties
— Jonah Goldberg American political writer and pundit 1969
( June 16, 2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20050617/corner.nationalreview.com/05_06_12_corner-archive.asp#066356)
2000s, 2005
„There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.“
— Doug Stanhope American stand-up comedian, actor, and author 1967
Before Turning the Gun on Himself (2012)
— Thomas Hobbes, libro Leviatano
The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)
Leviathan (1651)
— George Müller German-English clergyman 1805 - 1898
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative
„The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.“
— William Beebe American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer 1877 - 1962
As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)
„There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.“
— Paulo Coelho, libro Sulla sponda del fiume Piedra mi sono seduta e ho pianto
Origine: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
" First Visit to England http://www.emersoncentral.com/first_visit_england.htm" in English Traits http://www.emersoncentral.com/english.htm (1856)
— Paul Bowles American composer, writer, translator 1910 - 1999
Origine: The Spider's House
