Quote of Isidore of Seville - Live as if you were to...

Biography - Isidore of Seville:

Born: 560 - Died: 636
Period:
7th century
6th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

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

Isidore of Seville

Translation

(French)

Étudiez comme si vous deviez vivre toujours ; vivez comme si vous deviez mourir demain.

Isidore de Séville

Quotes for: to learn

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy /

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield /

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History /

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

André Gide /

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

to learn

You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.

Hermann Hesse /

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Quotes for: to live

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

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

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

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

Blanche Pierson /

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.

Alan Watts /

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

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

Alan Watts /

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Quotes for: to die

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell /

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

Leonardo da Vinci /

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

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

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

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

Philosophize is to learn how to die.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

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Isidore of Seville also said...

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.

Isidore of Seville /

Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.

Isidore of Seville

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