XIII. The Value of Life (Optimism and Pessimism)

GA 4/l13/p034 · RSPC1949 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

The greatest conceivable value of this quantity of pleasure would be reached, if no need remained unsatisfied which in any way aims at this kind of pleasure, and if with the smooth of pleasure we had not at the same time to take a certain amount of the rough of pain.

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Cite: GA 4/l13/p034 · edition RSPC1949 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)