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
"Authenticity is rare and precious in modern life."Noam Chomsky
"There is a quality of life which lies beyond mere survival."Alfred North Whitehead
"To be alive is to participate in the creative advance of nature."Alfred North Whitehead
"To live fully is to embrace uncertainty."Alfred North Whitehead
"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
"All life is problem solving. The more you solve, the more alive you become."Karl Popper
"We live in a state of perpetual emergency, and that is the normal condition of human existence."Karl Popper
"The meaning of life is whatever meaning we give it through our work and our relationships."Karl Popper
"Action is the essence of human existence."Ludwig von Mises
"Life is a series of choices that shape who we become."Ludwig von Mises
"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
"Absolute stability is death; relative stability is life."Alfred North Whitehead
"The varied richness of human experience is the greatest treasure of civilization."Alfred North Whitehead
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."Alfred North Whitehead
"To be alive is to be subject to forces beyond your understanding."Alfred North Whitehead
"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
"The gap between ideals and practice cannot be closed by argument but only by a change in the way we live."Paul Feyerabend
"To be alive is to participate in the creation of meaning and value."Paul Feyerabend
"Life is not just solving problems; it is also discovering problems we did not know existed."Karl Popper
"To live is to solve problems; to solve problems is to live."Karl Popper
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."John Maynard Keynes
"To enjoy living one should combine the study of the three non-exact sciences: of money, sex, and politics."John Maynard Keynes
"Pain and pleasure are the sovereign masters."Jérémie Bentham
"The worst day of your life is the one you do not live."Jérémie Bentham
"All the world is a stage; all the people merely players."Jérémie Bentham
"Life is what you make of it."Jérémie Bentham
"All life is problem-solving."Karl Popper