Culture

Jung's private exploration of his own unconscious, illustrated and illuminated over sixteen years. The search for meaning turned inward.

Tolstoy at the height of his fame, asking "Why should I live?" His answer - A Confession - is one of the most honest documents about the search for meaning ever written.

Darwin had the theory of evolution fully formed by 1838 and sat on it for twenty years, accumulating evidence. Meaning as the thing you hold long enough to be sure of - the willingness to wait until the argument is as strong as the idea.