Life Quotes

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

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"Gray is every theory, but green is the golden tree of life."
Johann Goethe
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"Three things matter in a man's life: his religion, his work, and his love."
Johann Goethe
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"Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be."
Johann Goethe
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"In the garden of human experience, weeds and flowers teach equally valuable lessons."
Friedrich Schiller
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"To live well is to live in accordance with reason and the natural order."
Christian Wolff
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"The contemplative life, pursued through reason, leads to the highest human fulfillment."
Christian Wolff
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"To live without reason is merely to exist; to live with reason is to truly live."
Christian Wolff
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"To live rationally is to live in concert with the deepest nature of existence."
Christian Wolff
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"Men are naturally inclined to preserve themselves and to continue in being."
Giovanni Vico
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"The preservation of self is the first law of nature."
Giovanni Vico
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"To live is to choose, and to choose wisely requires understanding."
Hugo Grotius
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"To be truly alive, one must embrace both joy and sorrow."
Friedrich Schiller
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"To live well, one must first understand oneself."
Christian Wolff
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"The perfection we seek is found in living according to our nature."
Christian Wolff
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"Each day, we slough off a bit more skin, become a bit more ourselves."
Johann Goethe
"Life's meaning is found in service to others."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Life's true value is measured not by comfort or ease, but by the meaning we create through our actions."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Man is not born for happiness, but for activity and development."
Johann Herder
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"In every human heart dwells the capacity for both darkness and light."
Johann Herder
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"The rhythm of life is found in the balance of action and reflection."
Johann Herder
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"The greatest thing is to make life worth living, not merely to live."
Friedrich Schiller
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"What the human heart most craves is meaning."
Friedrich Schiller
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"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose our responses."
Friedrich Schiller
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"To live is to choose; to choose is to commit oneself."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The measure of a life is not its length but the perfection it achieves."
Christian Wolff
"To live authentically, one must align thought with action."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Life is but a series of problems to be solved."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I have lived for knowledge and understanding."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I have lived to unlock the mysteries of existence."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I have dedicated my life to unlocking nature's secrets."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange