Life Quotes

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

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"A person is not just a rational being, but also an emotional and social being."
Noam Chomsky
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"Authenticity is rare and precious in modern life."
Noam Chomsky
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"There is a quality of life which lies beyond mere survival."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"To be alive is to participate in the creative advance of nature."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"To live fully is to embrace uncertainty."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But all of this is as it should be - at least, it is all challenging."
Karl Popper
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"All life is problem solving. The more you solve, the more alive you become."
Karl Popper
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"We live in a state of perpetual emergency, and that is the normal condition of human existence."
Karl Popper
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"The meaning of life is whatever meaning we give it through our work and our relationships."
Karl Popper
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"Action is the essence of human existence."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Life is a series of choices that shape who we become."
Ludwig von Mises
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"You cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by thought."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Absolute stability is death; relative stability is life."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The varied richness of human experience is the greatest treasure of civilization."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"To be alive is to be subject to forces beyond your understanding."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The purpose of life is not to have lived, but to have lived well."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Human beings everywhere struggle with the same fundamental contradictions."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Life becomes meaningful through the relationships and patterns we perceive in it."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"The gap between ideals and practice cannot be closed by argument but only by a change in the way we live."
Paul Feyerabend
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"To be alive is to participate in the creation of meaning and value."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Life is not just solving problems; it is also discovering problems we did not know existed."
Karl Popper
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"To live is to solve problems; to solve problems is to live."
Karl Popper
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
John Maynard Keynes
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"To enjoy living one should combine the study of the three non-exact sciences: of money, sex, and politics."
John Maynard Keynes
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"Pain and pleasure are the sovereign masters."
Jérémie Bentham
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"The worst day of your life is the one you do not live."
Jérémie Bentham
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"All the world is a stage; all the people merely players."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Life is what you make of it."
Jérémie Bentham
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"All life is problem-solving."
Karl Popper