Life Quotes

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

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"The body decays, but the legacy of a righteous life endures forever."
Maimonides
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"If we live according to reason, we live in obedience to natural law."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Desire is the very essence of man."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Man is necessarily always subject to human emotions."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The desire to live, to preserve oneself, is the primary and fundamental striving in all things."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The mind endeavors to persist in its being."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The life of man is of some importance to himself."
Hume, David
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"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."
Hume, David
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"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but habit and custom."
Hume, David
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"The life of man is of some importance to himself and he is capable of reflecting on past and future."
Hume, David
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"The passions of men, though variable, are generally of the same kind."
Hume, David
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"The world is a stage, and all the people in it merely players."
Descartes, René
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"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Descartes, René
D
"The human condition is one of constant struggle."
Descartes, René
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"To live is to think."
Descartes, René
D
"To will or not to will is the question."
Descartes, René
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"The purpose of life is to know God and to serve humanity."
Al-Ghazali
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow as teachers."
Avicenna
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"The goal of life is not happiness alone, but the fulfillment that comes from virtue."
Avicenna
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"The greatest principle of all is that no one, as long as he lives, is useless."
Maimonides
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"Just as the body requires nourishment, so the soul requires spiritual sustenance."
Maimonides
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"The more consciousness we have, the more we are capable of suffering."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The good life consists in the exercise of virtue and the pursuit of knowledge."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"To live well is to live in accordance with reason and virtue."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Every creature seeks its own perfection according to its nature."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"To be determined is to be alive; to be undetermined is to be dead."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"To live is to persist in one's own being; to die is to cease this persistence."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"To live well is to exercise virtue."
Descartes, René
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"The conservation of life is the primary law of every being."
Descartes, René