Importance
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"Life is too important to be taken seriously" --Oscar Wilde "However important it may be for all men to know the Truth, very few, nevertheless, are acquainted with it, because the majority are incapable of searching it themselves, or perhaps, do not wish the trouble. Thus we must not be astonished if the world is filled with vain and ridiculous opinions, and nothing is more capable of making them current than ignorance, which is the sole source of the false ideas that exist regarding the Divinity, the soul, and the spirit, and all the errors depending thereon." --Treatise of the Three Impostors |
Illustration: Napoléon Bonaparte abdicated in Fontainebleau (1845) by Paul Delaroche
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Importance refers to the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note; significance or prominence; personal status or standing.
Etymology
From in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“carry, bear; convey”).
Namesakes
- The Importance of Being Dada, an essay by Marsden Hartley
- The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, a play by Oscar Wilde
- A Woman of No Importance, a play by Oscar Wilde
See also
- A matter of life and death
- Fame
- Heavy
- Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, see Great Man theory
- Major
- Notability
- Primal
- Serious
- Social status
- Unimportant
- Value
- VIP
