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Quotes for Contemplating Life’s Big Questions

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

I think, therefore I am. – Ren? Descartes

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

To be is to be perceived. – George Berkeley

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. – AnaĽs Nin

The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. – Lao Tzu

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. – Stephen Hawking

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. – Marcus Aurelius

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’ – Lao Tzu

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. – Immanuel Kant

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. – Ren? Descartes

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. – Lao Tzu

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

A manÍs worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. – Voltaire

The only way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on. – Marcus Aurelius