Life Quotes

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

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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Kaplan, David
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"We are not trapped by our circumstances, but by our interpretation of them."
Perry, John
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"We are infinitely more than our worst moments."
Perry, John
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"Life's meaning is found in struggle for a more just and humane world."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Life is made meaningful through commitment to something larger than personal comfort."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Meaning-making is the eternal human struggle against meaninglessness."
Katz, Jerrold
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"To argue well is to think well; to think well is to live better."
Montague, Richard
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"To think clearly is to see the world more truly, and to see the world more truly is to live more wisely."
Montague, Richard
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"The meaning of life, if it has one, is not found in abstract principles."
Kaplan, David
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"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"There is no such thing as the problem of life. There is the problem of my life. Life is not a question that demands an answer."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The facts all contribute to only one end; but we cannot see it, unless we produce it ourselves."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Perry, John
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Perry, John
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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Perry, John
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Perry, John
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"The best things in life are unseen, that's why we close our eyes when we kiss, laugh, and dream."
Perry, John
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Burge, Tyler
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Burge, Tyler
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"To be is to be meaningful; meaningless existence is a contradiction in terms."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning is not static; it lives and grows through repeated encounters with language."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Proper function is what makes something alive."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We are products of our evolutionary past."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Purpose evolves through natural selection."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We cannot escape our evolutionary heritage."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We are fundamentally biological creatures."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We are evolved creatures."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett