Life Quotes

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

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"Common life is the system of our ordinary concerns and transactions."
David Hume
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"Every man has a character, and every character has its natural type."
David Hume
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"Life is a game where success depends on understanding the rules."
David Hume
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"Life's meaning is found in service to others."
Peter Kropotkin
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"A life lived without purpose is a death that begins before the body fails."
José de San Martín
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"Life is struggle; struggle is progress."
Michel Bakunin
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"My life has been a struggle against the enemies of freedom."
Simón Bolívar
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"A life spent in service to freedom is a life well-lived."
Simón Bolívar
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"Each man must know his own darkness before he can find light."
Antonio Gramsci
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"To know how one has lived is the first step to knowing who one is."
Antonio Gramsci
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"What we believe about ourselves shapes what we become."
Antonio Gramsci
"Life is struggle, but struggle gives life meaning."
Friedrich Engels
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"If I can't dance in your revolution, I don't want to be part of it."
Emma Goldman
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"The tragedy of life is not that it ends but that we often stop living before we die."
Emma Goldman
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"Only through experience can we truly understand the human condition."
Emma Goldman
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"Life is too short to waste on regret and too long to waste on resignation."
Emma Goldman
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"Every moment is a choice to live or merely exist."
Emma Goldman
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"We inherit a world shaped by the actions of our ancestors, just as we shape it for those who follow."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The most revolutionary act is to live according to your principles."
Peter Kropotkin
"Life's purpose is found in contributing to human liberation."
Friedrich Engels
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"A life without passion is no life at all"
Emma Goldman
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"To be truly alive is to refuse to be comfortable"
Emma Goldman
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"The question is not how to liberate ourselves from sexuality, but how to live more fully within it."
Michel Foucault
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"A life unexamined is not merely unworthy of living; it is barely living at all."
Michel Foucault
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"Life is most fully lived when in service to a greater cause."
Peter Kropotkin
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"To live is to struggle; to cease struggling is to begin dying."
Peter Kropotkin
"Life is struggle; without struggle there is no progress."
Friedrich Engels
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"Life's meaning is created through struggle and solidarity."
Michel Bakunin
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"Life achieves meaning through love for humanity and justice."
Michel Bakunin
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"To live fully means to live dangerously and authentically."
Emma Goldman