Life Quotes

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

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"To understand persons, we must understand how they persist through change."
Fine, Kit
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"The art of living well is knowing which battles are worth losing."
Lewis, David
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"The cooperative principle is as fundamental to language as air is to breathing."
Grice, Paul
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"We are all constantly engaged in the activity of making sense together."
Grice, Paul
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"To communicate is to participate in the fundamental human activity."
Grice, Paul
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"The principle of cooperation assumes that we want to be understood."
Grice, Paul
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"We are all engaged in the endless work of making meaning together."
Grice, Paul
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"Emotions are not inner episodes but dispositions to behave and think in characteristic ways."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The nature of play is that it involves engaging in activities for their own sake rather than external goals."
Ryle, Gilbert
"The purpose of life is not to find the truth but to create meaning."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Life is richer when we embrace ambiguity and contradiction."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Life is not about finding the right answers but asking better questions."
Feyerabend, Paul
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"Habit is not the enemy of thought but often its condition."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Emotions are not internal episodes but dispositions to behave."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Feeling and thinking are not sharply separated but intimately related."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The intellect alone cannot govern conduct without feeling and judgment."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Life is a process of continuous unfolding."
Bohm, David
"To be alive is to be in perpetual conflict with established order."
Feyerabend, Paul
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"To live is to wonder; to wonder is to understand"
Bell, John Stewart
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"To question is to be alive"
Bell, John Stewart
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"Each decision creates a new world where different outcomes manifest."
Everett, Hugh
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"Accept that your choices create parallel existences of yourself."
Everett, Hugh
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"The future is not singular; it is multiplicitious."
Everett, Hugh
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"Every choice you make is realized in some branch of reality."
Everett, Hugh
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"Every choice spawns new universes where different versions of you exist."
Everett, Hugh
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"Every choice you make is eternally real in some branch of the multiverse."
Everett, Hugh
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"Every person has a fundamental human need to create meaning in their life."
Bohm, David
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"Our task is not to understand the universe but to participate consciously in its unfolding."
Bohm, David
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"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
Feynman, Richard