Life Quotes

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

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"We cannot live well by accident; we must know what we are doing."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"To live without purpose is to live without meaning."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"To live morally is to live in accordance with one's true nature."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"The quality of our life depends on the quality of our choices."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"To live fully is to embrace both the shadows and the light within ourselves."
Wisdom, John
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and so one begins to live."
Moore, George Edward
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
Moore, George Edward
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"The life of a man is what his thought makes it."
Moore, George Edward
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Moore, George Edward
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"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
Moore, George Edward
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"The question of life remained unanswered."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"The riddle of life in space and time, if we could only solve it, would lose all its meaning."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"The mystery of life is manifested in the mystery of being."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"To live is to engage in the world of possibilities."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"The human condition is characterized by natality and mortality."
Arendt, Hannah
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"The good life is not achieved through abstract principles but through habituation."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"Human flourishing is not a luxury but a necessity for understanding morality."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"To live well is to integrate all aspects of human nature toward a unified good."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"The good life requires integration of reason, passion, and social relations."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"Habits shape us in ways we often do not recognize until too late."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"Human beings naturally desire flourishing, even when they mistake what it consists in."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"To live authentically requires rejecting merely conventional understandings of the good."
Anscombe, Elizabeth
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
Russell, Bertrand
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"A man is a complex being; he makes peace and he makes war; he creates and he destroys."
Russell, Bertrand
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"To live is to dance between the raindrops of uncertainty and the sunshine of hope."
Wisdom, John
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"Every person is a universe of untapped potential and unwritten stories."
Wisdom, John
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"The greatest challenge in life is to become who you truly wish to be."
Moore, George Edward
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"The human good is tied to our proper functioning as rational creatures."
Foot, Philippa