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