“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
12 April 1834 http://books.google.com/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;We+are+always+getting+ready+to+live+but+never+living&quot;&pg=PA276#v=onepage <br class="br">1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“We are always beginning to live, but are never living.”
Victuros agimus semper, nec vivimus unquam.
Book IV, line 5.
Astronomica
“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Mission of the University https://archive.org/details/missionofuniver000orte [ Misión de la Universidad http://www.esi2.us.es/~fabio/mision.pdf <br class="br">Context: Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.
