Life Quotes

"We are products of natural selection."

"We are evolutionary beings."

"To speak clearly is to think clearly; to think clearly is to exist more fully."

"Language is both our greatest tool and our deepest prison."

"Language is a map, but the territory is always richer than the map."

"We are, in a very real sense, the creatures of the languages we speak."

"Language shapes us even as we shape language."

"We inhabit a world of symbols; learning to read them is learning to live."

"Life's greatest lessons often come from our smallest moments."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"Life's meaning emerges through engagement."

"Life is the canvas on which we create meaning."

"Every moment offers the chance to understand ourselves better."

"The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem."

"The fact that life is problematic shows that the shape of one's life does not fit into the shape of the world."

"A confession has to be a radical change of life."

"A person can recognize something wrong with their life without being able to explain what it is."

"Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. Everything we do stands on uncertain ground."

"The self is constituted through repeated acts of identification."

"Identity is puzzling precisely because it matters so much."

"Identity over time is not a fact but a framework."

"Identity over time requires more than continuity."

"Identity is conventional, yet it matters absolutely."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."