Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - to live - Buboquote.com

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.

Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ /

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

Voltaire - Épîtres /

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen /

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

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You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.

André Comte-Sponville /

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!

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I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Hermann Hesse /

If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.

Selma Lagerlöf /

The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.

Blaise Pascal - Letters to Mr and Mlle de Rouannez /

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

To create is to live twice.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Miser /

He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.

Desiderius Erasmus /

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.

Émile Maximilien Paul Littré /

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Isidore of Seville /

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci /

The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.

Ludwig Wittgenstein /

While we wait for life, life passes.