
“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”
Rules 2 Rule
Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
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“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”
Rules 2 Rule
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.”
This statement is presented in quotes in The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta (2008) by Arvind Sharma, p. 216, as a "Santayanan point", but earlier publications by the same author, such as in A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (2006), p. 161, state it to be a stance of Santayana without actually indicating or in any ways implying that it is a direct quotation.
Disputed
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”
“If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.”
Aphorism 42
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)