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 not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"Only the man who lives not for pleasure lives."Wittgenstein, Ludwig
"The lived experience cannot be reduced to abstract formulas; it must be interpreted with sensitivity."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced and interpreted."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The meaning of life is found not in abstract principles but in lived experience."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"A person is but a particular kind of thing, a system of habits."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Consciousness, on the lowest terms, is nothing other than a feeling."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."Heidegger, Martin
"The human condition is characterized by finitude and thrownness."Heidegger, Martin
"We are always already thrown into a world not of our making."Heidegger, Martin
"The essence of man is to be the guardian of being."Heidegger, Martin
"We live in a stream of experiences, yet consciousness binds them into coherent wholes of meaning."Husserl, Edmund
"Life is not a state of well-being, but a state of constant activity."Spencer, Herbert
"The human being is a compound of contradictions."Spencer, Herbert
"Existence is conditioned by, and is an expression of, perpetual activity."Spencer, Herbert
"Life is the continuous adjustment to environment."Spencer, Herbert
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."James, William
"Hang on to the thought that life is worth living; that is the creed of a sound philosophy."James, William
"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."Dewey, John
"The individual only can finally judge the value of their own experience."Dewey, John
"The most profound principle of human nature is the desire for personal growth."Dewey, John
"We live not just in a physical world but in a world of meanings."Dewey, John
"Life is not something that happens to us; it is something we do."Dewey, John
"The capacity for growth is what fundamentally distinguishes the living from the dead."Dewey, John
"A man should render himself such company as he wishes to keep."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Man makes the world, and the world makes man."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Life is full of surprises and improbabilities."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"What is life but the exercise of thinking?"Peirce, Charles Sanders