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
"We are not trapped by our circumstances, but by our interpretation of them."Perry, John
"We are infinitely more than our worst moments."Perry, John
"Life's meaning is found in struggle for a more just and humane world."Chomsky, Noam
"Life is made meaningful through commitment to something larger than personal comfort."Chomsky, Noam
"Meaning-making is the eternal human struggle against meaninglessness."Katz, Jerrold
"To argue well is to think well; to think well is to live better."Montague, Richard
"To think clearly is to see the world more truly, and to see the world more truly is to live more wisely."Montague, Richard
"The meaning of life, if it has one, is not found in abstract principles."Kaplan, David
"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."Wittgenstein, Richard
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."Wittgenstein, Richard
"We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched."Wittgenstein, Richard
"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
"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."Wittgenstein, Richard
"The facts all contribute to only one end; but we cannot see it, unless we produce it ourselves."Wittgenstein, Richard
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."Perry, John
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."Perry, John
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."Perry, John
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."Perry, John
"The best things in life are unseen, that's why we close our eyes when we kiss, laugh, and dream."Perry, John
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."Burge, Tyler
"Life is a journey, not a destination."Burge, Tyler
"To be is to be meaningful; meaningless existence is a contradiction in terms."Katz, Jerrold
"Meaning is not static; it lives and grows through repeated encounters with language."Katz, Jerrold
"Proper function is what makes something alive."Millikan, Ruth Garrett
"We are products of our evolutionary past."Millikan, Ruth Garrett
"Purpose evolves through natural selection."Millikan, Ruth Garrett
"We cannot escape our evolutionary heritage."Millikan, Ruth Garrett
"We are fundamentally biological creatures."Millikan, Ruth Garrett
"We are evolved creatures."Millikan, Ruth Garrett