Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Society provides the script; individuals must decide how to perform it."
Thomas Luckmann
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"We live in multiple worlds simultaneously, moving between them daily."
Thomas Luckmann
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"The value of life lies in its authenticity."
Lucien Goldmann
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"We are all trying to do a very difficult thing - to live together in a society that is becoming increasingly complex."
David Riesman
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"The game of life has rules we never explicitly agreed to follow."
David Riesman
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"We are all caught in the net of interdependence that modernity has created."
David Riesman
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"Attention is the sculptor of our perceptual reality."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The organization of experience reveals what consciousness values."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"To live is to continuously interpret the signs scattered throughout experience."
Maurice Natanson
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"We are thrown into a world we did not choose and must make meaning nonetheless."
Maurice Natanson
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"The meaning of life is not discovered but created through living it."
Maurice Natanson
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"Our biographies are embedded in history; our psychology in society."
Peter Berger
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"Modern man suffers from a kind of spiritual vertigo."
Peter Berger
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"We are born into a world already constructed by those who came before us."
Peter Berger
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"The human condition is fundamentally characterized by the need to create meaning."
Peter Berger
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"The individual's biography is always embedded in historical processes beyond their control."
Peter Berger
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"Meaning-making is not a luxury but a fundamental human necessity."
Peter Berger
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"We are born into language and thereby born into a pre-constructed world of meaning."
Peter Berger
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"To be human is to seek meaning even in the face of meaninglessness."
Peter Berger
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"Modern man has lost the ability to live without justifying his existence."
Philip Rieff
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"We are all, in a sense, trying to live up to an image of ourselves."
David Riesman
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"We perform ourselves for invisible audiences constantly."
David Riesman
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"We have confused fitting in with belonging."
David Riesman
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"The crowd provides security but demands a price in self-erasure."
David Riesman
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"The crowd is therapeutic until you realize you're drowning in it."
David Riesman
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"We are all reporters of others' lives, tourists in our own."
David Riesman
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"We are shaped by our environment."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Leisure is as important as work."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"The authentic self must be continually discovered."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Life's meaning emerges not from what happens to us but from how we interpret it."
Thomas Luckmann