Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Nothing is ever completely finished."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Our being in the world is fundamentally a matter of care."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"To be human is to be in question."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"We are always already in the world before any reflection."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The self is not a given but a task."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The world is what we make it through our engagement."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"To be human is to be incomplete, always reaching toward what we are not yet."Ernst Bloch
"The self is not a given but an achievement, always still in the making."Ernst Bloch
"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."Martin Heidegger
"We do not live because we have been thrown into existence."Martin Heidegger
"To be human is to care."Martin Heidegger
"Finitude is the foundation of human existence."Martin Heidegger
"We are suspended between birth and death, forever."Martin Heidegger
"The self is not discovered but created through choice."Martin Heidegger
"Life's meaning emerges through our intentional engagement with the world around us."Edmund Husserl
"The human spirit is defined by its capacity to transcend its circumstances."Edmund Husserl
"Authenticity demands that we align our conscious beliefs with our actual experience."Edmund Husserl
"Consciousness is always striving, always seeking, always reaching beyond itself."Edmund Husserl
"To say that we live in a world is to say that we are condemned to meaning."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"To be human is to be engaged with a world of significance."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The world is presented to us as already inhabited by others."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Meaning is what matters most in life"Willard Van Orman Quine
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in destroying itself, so that it is impossible to derive the notions of right and wrong from the principles of evolution."Alfred North Whitehead
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."Alfred North Whitehead
"The development of living organisms is an adventure, a struggle toward more adequate realities."Alfred North Whitehead
"Life trims its expectations to the probable."Alfred North Whitehead
"Authentic experience is increasingly difficult to achieve in societies organized for consumption."Herbert Marcuse
"The administered world leaves no space for genuine spontaneity or authentic desire."Herbert Marcuse
"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."Martin Heidegger
"To be is to dwell."Martin Heidegger