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 a quest for understanding."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Dedication to understanding is dedication to life itself."
Weyl, Hermann
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"I go along with the flowing stream of life and accept the unfolding of events."
Bohr, Niels
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Bohr, Niels
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"The purpose of life is not to find meaning. It is to create meaning."
Bohr, Niels
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"The richness of our experience lies in the interplay between simplicity and complexity."
Bohr, Niels
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"The meaning of life is an individual matter that cannot be universally prescribed."
Bohr, Niels
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"A life devoted to mathematics is a life well-lived."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"The mathematical life enriches the human experience."
Hilbert, David
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"To live fully is to think clearly."
Hilbert, David
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Einstein, Albert
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Einstein, Albert
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"A person starts to live when they can live outside themselves."
Einstein, Albert
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"It is absolutely impossible to imagine the beginning of life on earth."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life gains meaning through the pursuit of understanding."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."
Wigner, Eugene
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"We are part of nature, and therefore our understanding of nature is also an understanding of ourselves."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes sense to ask ourselves the purpose of life."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators."
Bohr, Niels
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"Life is not about accumulating possessions, but about accumulating experiences and understanding."
Bohr, Niels
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"To embrace intuition in mathematics is to embrace the human condition."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"In mathematics, as in all things, the journey is infinitely more valuable than the destination."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"In the act of construction, we find not just answers but ourselves."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"To work intuitively in mathematics is to work in harmony with the human condition."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life is a mysterious thing that we must make the best of."
Einstein, Albert
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"My life is my message."
Einstein, Albert