Comparative mythology corpus

Usefulness Of Uselessness

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Daoist Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER I--TRANSCENDENTAL BLISS 1 / INDEX 455 / ERRATA AND ADDENDA 466 / HERBERT A. GILES.; lines 816-909 high The parable of the trees is described as reversing outside judgments: the good-for-nothing survives, teaching the usefulness of being useless. record