Life Quotes

"Human beings seem to need both roots and wings, yet these often pull in opposite directions."

"We are each a battleground of conflicting impulses and values; this is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be understood."

"Life becomes meaningful only through commitment to something beyond self-interest."

"The meaning of life cannot be extracted but only lived and experienced."

"Life has activity as its proceeding radical principle."

"Suffering is the price of existence."

"Life is the struggle toward consciousness."

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

"Life is a game of extreme seriousness."

"The first duty of man is duty to himself."

"To be human is to be caught between competing loyalties and values. This is not a condition to be regretted but accepted."

"No human being can live without passion; without passion the soul is dead."

"Birth is the political event par excellence."

"Man cannot live by bread alone, but he cannot live without it either."

"To live is to choose, and to choose is to exclude other possibilities."

"The meaning of life is not given but created through our choices."

"Each of us desires to live well, and this desire is a basic fact of human nature."

"Life is the perpetual motion of matter according to laws."

"Life is the process of becoming, not a fixed state"

"The journey of the spirit is one of self-discovery"

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"The natural condition of mankind is a condition of war."

"Custom is the great guide of human life"

"The life of man is of some importance to himself"

"Probability is the very guide of life"

"The life we lead determines the person we become"

"Man is born naked and poor"

"A man may love his house and lands dearly without being a politician"