Life Quotes

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

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"All things that live must breathe; all things that breathe are alive."
Anaximenes
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"To live fully is to understand the air that sustains you."
Anaximenes
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"Understanding the nature of breath is understanding the nature of life itself."
Anaximenes
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"We are born knowing nothing, and we die knowing only what we have learned."
Xenophanes
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"The body ages, but the inquiring mind grows younger with each discovery."
Xenophanes
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"The measure of a person is not their beginning, but their growth."
Xenophanes
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"To live well, one must understand the nature of all things."
Anaxagoras
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"We are but witnesses to the eternal dance of matter and mind."
Anaxagoras
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"To live wisely is to live in accordance with reason."
Anaxagoras
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"What we call life is merely atoms arranged in a particular way."
Leucippus
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"Life is a journey of discovery."
Anaximander
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"Youth ages a body. But the heart never wrinkles."
Aristophanes
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"Those who understand the worth of life live it more fully."
Aristophanes
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts and pieces."
Aristophanes
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"Desire is the price we pay for being alive; without it, we are merely shadows."
Sappho
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"All living things are born from moisture and return to it; this is the cycle of existence."
Anaximander
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"Life itself is a temporary ordering of the infinite chaos."
Anaximander
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"To live well is to live in accordance with nature's laws."
Anaximander
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"Motion is the primary characteristic of being; without it, there is only stillness and death."
Leucippus
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"The void is not emptiness but the foundation upon which all being rests."
Leucippus
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"Motion is proof that being is not static but eternally creative."
Leucippus
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"All growth is atomic; all decay is atomic; all life is atomic arrangement."
Leucippus
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"Life has meaning only when one lives it not for oneself alone, but for others."
Euripides
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"No one can live happily who looks only to himself."
Euripides
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"Of all the things that live and have intelligence, we women are the most unfortunate."
Sophocles
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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
Sophocles
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"Suffering is the mark of the human condition."
Sophocles
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"To live well is to think well and observe carefully."
Anaxagoras
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"All growth is simply the rearrangement of what already exists."
Anaxagoras
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"We inherit both the capacity and the responsibility to seek truth."
Anaxagoras