Life Quotes

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others. For nothing enriches the world more than kindness. It makes mysterious things clear, difficult things easy, and dull things cheerful.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.