Life Quotes

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

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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Lewis, David
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Lewis, David
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"Objects persist not despite change but through it"
Fine, Kit
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"Persistence conditions explain what it means to be an object"
Fine, Kit
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"The principle of composition explains how wholes emerge from parts"
Fine, Kit
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"Life is what we make of it."
Geach, Peter
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"Every person contains infinite depths waiting to be explored."
Fine, Arthur
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"Our lives are shaped not by what happens to us, but by how we choose to interpret those events."
Lewis, David
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"The life you want exists in the gap between your comfort and your willingness to be uncomfortable."
Lewis, David
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."
Fine, Arthur
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"A life lived in fear of judgment is a life not fully lived."
Fine, Kit
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"We are shaped not by our circumstances, but by how we interpret them."
Lewis, David
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"We become what we repeatedly contemplate; choose your thoughts carefully."
Lewis, David
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"Organisms don't just respond mechanically - they act intentionally toward goals."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Our ability to think depends on our evolutionary history and current interactions."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"The mind evolved as a solution to the problem of navigating a complex world."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Meaning emerges only where there are minds that care about accuracy."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"To think is to represent the world as being a certain way."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Mental content is historical - it depends on how our representations came to be."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Meaning-making is the essence of being human."
Fine, Arthur
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"The gap between knowing and doing is where life happens."
Fine, Arthur
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"We are meaning-making creatures in a meaning-neutral universe."
Fine, Arthur
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"Habits are the architecture of character."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Behavior is a display of dispositions."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The self is constituted through action and habit."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Dispositions are revealed in conduct over time."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Pleasure and pain are not sensations but attitudes."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The self is not prior to action but emerges through it."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Habits are the foundation of human flourishing."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The mind shows itself in conduct."
Ryle, Gilbert