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