Quotes About Purpose

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

But inherited wealth reaches its utmost value when it falls to the individual endowed with mental powers of a high order, who is resolved to pursue a line of life not compatible with the making of money; for he is then doubly endowed by fate and can live for his genius; and he will pay his debt to mankind a hundred times, by achieving what no other could achieve, by producing some work which contributes to the general good, and redounds to the honor of humanity at large.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

une foule énorme de gens ne sont sur la terre que pour mettre finalement au monde, à la suite de longs et mystérieux croisements, un homme qui, entre mille, possédera quelque indépendance

Mancarea buna, vinurile alese – iata scopul suprem al existentei; sa-si procure tot ce contribuie la binele sau material este tinta vietii sale. Seriozitatea rece, lipsita de sens este proprie filistinului si-l caracterizeaza. Odata sfarsite placerile materiale, societatea filistinilor devine curand plictisitoare. Pana si jocul de carti devine monoton.

Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not

El hecho de que, detrás de la angustia, se encuentre de inmediato el aburrimiento, que afecta hasta a los animales más inteligentes, es consecuencia de que la vida no tiene ningún contenido verdadero y auténtico, sino que solo se mantiene en movimiento por necesidad e ilusión: y tan pronto como el movimiento se detiene, aparece toda la esterilidad y el vacío de la existencia.

To will [Wollen]! Great words! pointer on the scales of the Last Judgment, the bridge between heaven and hell! Reason is not the light shining from heaven, but only a sign post set up by ourselves and directed to the chosen goal, that it may show us the direction when the goal itself is concealed. But one can direct it to hell just as well to heaven.

This again, tallies with what Goethe says in Wilhelm Meister: The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.

But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as they arose, how would men occupy their lives? what would they do with their time? If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Volere il meno possibile e conoscere il più possibile è stata la massima che ha guidato la mia vita.

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', to escape boredom.

Ä°nsan yapabileceklerini isteyerek yapmal? ve çekmesi gereken ac?y? isteyerek çekmelidir. -Gnomici poetae Graeci

A happy life is impossible, the highest that man can achieve is a heroic life.

Ä°nsan?n hayat?, yenileceÄŸinden hiç ÅŸüphe etmeksizin, var olmaya çal??mak için harcanm?? bir çabad?r.

O persoan? înzestrat? cu daruri mentale înalte ÅŸi rare, care e obligat? s? accepte o slujb? strict utilitar? este ca o vaz? preÅ£ioas?, decorat? cu cele mai minunate imagini, dar folosit? ca vas de buc?t?rie.

Gdyby?my przyj?li wolno?? woli, to ka?da ludzka czynno?? by?aby cudem nienadaj?cym si? wyt?umaczy?: skutkiem bez przyczyny.

La vida no se presenta de modo alguno como un regalo del cual podamos disfrutar, sino más bien como un deber, una tarea que es necesaria cumplir a fuerza de trabajo.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Existe apenas um único erro inato, que é o de acreditarmos que vivemos para sermos felizes.

A young man of rich family enters upon life with a large patrimony, and often runs through it in an incredibly short space of time, in vicious extravagance; and why? Simply because, here too, the mind is empty and void, and so the man is bored with existence.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy….So long as we persist in this inborn error, and indeed even become confirmed in it through optimistic dogmas, the world seems to us full of contradictions.

Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it.