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“Life is simply the reification of the process of living.”

Life Is Process Society

Author:Ernst Mayr

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Truth Life Is Change Society Anger Aging Dues Favors Changes In Society Systems Change

Author:Robert Frost

“Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.”

Men Made Spiritual Life Is Environment Society Unpredictable Predictable Inner Life Stagnation

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.”

Ideas Sometimes Life Is Belief Grows Society Youth Letting Go Empty Conservative Possession Radical Symptoms Conservatism

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”

Inspirational Age Funny Life Is Enemy Class Society Middle Birthday Middle Class Middle Ages Middle Class Life

Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?”

Life Believe Life Is Motivation Fighting Community Challenges Leadership Society Ready Adversity Get Back Knocked Down

Author:Dan Quayle

“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”

War Law Life Is Our Lives Society Fairs Competition Dues Separation Isolation Mutual Hostility Helpfulness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.”

Firsts Children School Life Is Courses Society Stupid Products Impression Organized Dull Relief Lasting Coke Schools And Education First Impression

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”

Men Doe Self Life Is Water Born Loses Society Identity Development Ocean Independent Drop Of Water

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”