Life Quotes

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

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"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
Einstein, Albert
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The universe achieves its aim of the intensification of experience through the perfection of forms."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Each human soul is unique and irreplaceable."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Stability and variability are the two poles of life."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"To think is to be alive."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Life is complexity, and we do not have time for endless analyses."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Life is the transformation of randomness into order."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
Wigner, Eugene
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"What makes life worth living is the constant pursuit of understanding."
Wigner, Eugene
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"In mathematics, as in life, the journey matters more than the destination."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"To live is to participate in the grand experiment of existence."
Poincaré, Henri
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"The alternative to tragedy is not happiness, but triviality."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Every human life is a work of art in progress; the question is whether the artist is conscious."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"A life unlived is a tragedy greater than any external misfortune."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"A life spent in pursuit of truth is a life well-lived."
Church, Alonzo
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"To be alive is to be part of something greater than ourselves."
Poincaré, Henri
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The gift of life is the opportunity to become who we are meant to be."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"I myself like the things of this world."
Gödel, Kurt
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"We must learn to live with indeterminacy and ambiguity."
Putnam, Hilary
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"In a properly constructed society, leisure is not idleness."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Life is a perpetual struggle with Forms."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Life is a self-balancing, self-adjusting process."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The purpose of human life is not to believe, but to realize."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Perfection is no more a requisite for human beings than for the universe."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The most important thing in life is to understand the nature of existence."
Gödel, Kurt