Life Quotes

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

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"Mind and body make up human nature"
Giovanni Vico
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"Nations go through ages as individuals do"
Giovanni Vico
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"Human nature is universal"
Giovanni Vico
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"Life is a journey of discovery"
Giovanni Vico
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."
George Berkeley
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"The unexamined life leads to misconceptions about ourselves and others."
George Berkeley
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"Life's meaning emerges from how we perceive and respond to it."
George Berkeley
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"To be truly alive is to be forever learning, forever questioning, forever growing."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Life teaches us that mechanism and feeling coexist."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"To live is to participate in the ongoing creation of meaning."
Giovanni Vico
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"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a person."
Johann Goethe
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"Life is trying things to see if they work."
Johann Goethe
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"The man who regards his own life as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit to live."
Johann Goethe
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person feel how warm it is to be alive."
Johann Goethe
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Johann Goethe
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Johann Goethe
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"What matters in life is not the big moments, but the small moments."
Johann Goethe
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"The purpose of life is the improvement of the human character."
Johann Herder
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by moments that take our breath away."
Johann Herder
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Life is a dream a little less inconstant than the rest."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The richness of life lies in variety."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Hugo Grotius
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"The good is that which perfects our being and brings us into harmony with nature."
Christian Wolff
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"To live well is to live according to the nature given us by creation."
Christian Wolff
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"To be fully oneself is to actualize one's complete rational potential."
Christian Wolff
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"Life is the greatest gift we can receive"
Jean Bodin
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"A life well-lived requires both action and reflection."
Johann Herder
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"To know oneself is to begin the work of becoming who one might be."
Johann Herder
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"A life well-lived is one spent in service to truth and justice."
Catharine Macaulay