Life Quotes

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

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"The value of a life is measured by the problems it solves."
Karl Popper
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"A life without purpose is a life without meaning."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The only durable distinction is the distinction of having lived and died as a happy man."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Johann Tetens
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"Life is the sum of small moments lived consciously."
Johann Tetens
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"Life without pleasure is not worth living."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"One must live to know how to live."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"To live well is to satisfy one's natural desires rationally."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"A rational life is one that balances all desires."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"To live is to continually adapt and transform oneself."
Antonio Genovesi
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"I will try to be present, to be accounted for"
George Berkeley
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"A life examined is a life worth living; unexamined existence is merely existence."
Johann Tetens
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"Life is the opportunity to become more fully human each day."
Johann Tetens
J
"Life is the continuation of matter's eternal dance of organization and dissolution."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"To condemn sensuality is to condemn life itself."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
Jérémie Bentham
J
"Enjoyment is, everywhere, the only object and only source of the desire."
Jérémie Bentham
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"To suffer from pain is to be deprived of pleasure; to be deprived of pleasure is to suffer pain."
Jérémie Bentham
J
"A man's happiness or misery depends upon his character, not his circumstances."
Jérémie Bentham
J
"The cause of most human misery is the misdirection of effort and energy."
Jérémie Bentham
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"The nature of man is to seek pleasure and avoid pain."
Jérémie Bentham
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"The pursuit of pleasure divorced from reason becomes the pursuit of pain."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Mountains and valleys in life are both necessary; flat plains would be a form of death."
Antonio Genovesi
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"To think is to be; but to feel is truly to live."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The body speaks a language more honest than any words could express."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"Life's greatest rewards come not from ease, but from meaningful struggle and purposeful endeavor."
Johann Tetens
J
"Life's meaning is not given but created through our choices, commitments, and relationships."
Johann Tetens
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"Life is not a destination to be reached, but a journey to be lived."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Life is short and the mind becomes old in the service of a mechanical routine."
John Maynard Keynes