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