Quotes About Purpose

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

L'amour, bande de connards ! A quoi ça rime, sinon, de vivre ?

The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose but creating mischief.

Rightly considered, kindness is the grand cause of God in the world. Where it is natural, it must forthwith be super-naturalized. Where it is not natural, it must be supernaturally planted. What is the purpose our life? It is a mission to go into every corner it can reach, and reconquer for God's beatitude His unhappy world back to Him.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Bibo, ergo sum. - I drink, therefore I am

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.

Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

If we have our own 'why' of life, we can bear almost any 'how.'

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

My doctrine is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again—that is thy duty—for in any case thou wilt live again!

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

But we cannot go back to the life we shared with you yesterday, a life which you will spread before us so temptingly when you return. We have suffered too much to believe any more that the way to what we see as the Absolute can go in any other direction than through the deep valley of sorrow. Hell has not opened before our eyes to no purpose, and he who has once seen it cannot find his way back to earthly symposiums.