Life Quotes

"Virtue is a matter of getting our desires and emotions properly aligned."

"Moral development is a process of becoming more fully human."

"We cannot separate questions of how to live from questions about human nature."

"The examined life reveals patterns of meaning we overlook in haste."

"The question 'How should one live?' remains the most urgent of all."

"The examined life may be uncomfortable, but the unexamined life proves ultimately hollow."

"To be fully present is to be fully alive."

"Every joy contains a hidden sorrow."

"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not symptoms which can be removed without removing life itself."

"The human condition, insofar as it is human, has nothing to do with either labor or work."

"Humanity is not an abstraction but a living reality of human beings."

"The plurality of human beings is the basic condition of both action and speech."

"Authentic existence is existence in plurality."

"We are called to respond, not just to exist."

"The meaning of life is not found in the abstract, but in the concrete practices through which we live."

"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."

"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through embracing, taking into our arms."

"In the beginning is the relation."

"All actual life is encounter."

"How can one tell another about one's life?"

"Every person born is a new beginning, a different person."

"One does not live only a private life; one lives in the world and the world lives in him."

"Every person is a new world."

"In every meeting, the whole world is present."

"The person becomes fully human only through relation with others."

"The question of the sense of life is the deepest of all questions."

"Language mirrors the structure of human life and experience."

"To ask for the meaning of life is to ask a senseless question unless contextualized."

"We create ourselves through language; language is not merely a tool but our mode of being."

"The human condition is characterized by a sense of impermanence."