Life Quotes

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

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"The first law of nature is self-preservation."
Johannes Kepler
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"Life is but a moment, yet mathematics is eternal."
Leonhard Euler
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"Life without mathematics is like a bird without wings."
Leonhard Euler
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"The true problems of life are not solved in intellectual terms."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Life is a temporary loan and this world is nothing but a series of flirtations with eternity."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Pleasure and pain are not states that exist independently; they are aspects of the same experience."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The life well-lived is the life of continuous learning."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The human soul is capable of infinite development."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"A life devoted to truth is a life well-lived."
Archimedes
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"To live is to question; to die is to answer."
Archimedes
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"To live without seeking understanding is to live incompletely."
Johannes Kepler
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"Life is a series of problems to be solved through reason and calculation."
Leonhard Euler
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"A life devoted to learning is a life well-lived."
Leonhard Euler
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"To live is to be conscious."
René Descartes
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"To live is to inquire and to question."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The measure of life is not its length but its depth."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The soul and body perform their operations in concert."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"To live well is to live according to reason."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Life without mathematics is like life without music—beautiful, perhaps, but incomplete."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"In geometry, as in life, small errors compound into great ones."
Euclid
"The student who loves geometry loves the nature of existence."
Euclid
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"What is life but a series of problems awaiting their elegant solutions?"
Archimedes
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"Life is the unfolding of infinite potential in finite time."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"All the passions of the soul remain in some form within us."
René Descartes
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"Habit is a second nature, but of which we are often ignorant."
René Descartes
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"To live without engaging the mind is to exist without truly living."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"A life devoted to reason is a life well-lived."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"To measure water is to measure the tears and achievements of civilization."
Archimedes
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"To live without curiosity is to live without truly living."
Leonhard Euler
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"To live fully is to engage completely with the world around us."
Leonhard Euler