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life

carpe diem

toast (speech)

biology

virus

trivia

death

binomial

carbon

ology (the study of)

existentialism

nihilism

pessimism

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jean-Paul Sartre

Slavoj Zizek

Arthur Schopenhauer

autopoetic system

big bang

consciousness

explosion

penis

struggle

gardening

store

bug spray

choose your own adventure

birth

life course

living

Norm Macdonald

everyday life

routine

's purpose is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke

is only to be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

is a learning experience, only if one learns.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn. Yogi Berra

is a biological and material given, and also a social and experiential reality. In both cases it in inextricably linked with the representations and practices this concept generates.

For Rose, life is understood as a biological and material given, with the representations and practices associated with it a social and experiential reality, together with the representations and practices this concept generates' (190).'

is a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

We must accept life for what it actually is a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. Robert Louis Stevenson

is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald

is a concept too generic and crude to be productive. ''The living,'' differs further from ''life,'' la vie, in that it is mediated, as living, by the specific milieu it experiences.

Canguilhem argued that mechanism, dating back to Descartes, fails to see that particular milieus are always experienced differently by particular organisms and that organisms, because of their unpredictable and singular interactions with their milieus, cannot be reduced to undifferentiated physico-mechanical systems.20 From this starting point, he developed an understanding not of ''life'' a concept too generic and crude to be productive but of ''the living,'' the ''living being,'' or the ''living organism,'' phrased in a way that silences the possible organismic or ontological focus of this term ''life.'' ''The living,'' le vivant, differs further from ''life,'' la vie, in that it is mediated, as living, by the specific milieu it experiences. Nonliving beings have no such milieu, whereas living ones are forced to deal with theirs and their milieus are always different, specific to themselves. As a concept, ''the living'' allowed a rethinking of individuality in terms of both the indivisibility and the inherent differences between different beings, with normativity seen simply as a value imposed by living. At the same time, it avoided the vitalist implications of a ''vital spirit'' or a Bergsonian e lan vital (''vital impulse''). (Canguilhem, Wrtings in Science p.5)

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