Quotes About Purpose

Seine Kleider, die den Zweck hatten, Kälte und Hitze von ihm abzuhalten, schienen zu flüstern: Er zog uns an, während er mit seinen Gedanken ganz wo anders war.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

L'uomo, per tua regola, nasca ricco o povero, è obbligato in questo mondo a far qualcosa, a occuparsi, a lavorare. Guai a lasciarsi prendere dall'ozio! L'ozio è una bruttissima malattia, e bisogna guarirla subito, fin da ragazzi: se no, quando siamo grandi, non si guarisce più.

Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Perhaps it's not possible to explain, he said. Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

Yo creo que nada sucede por casualidad, ¿sabes? Que, en el fondo, las cosas tienen su plan secreto, aunque nosotros no lo entendamos.

If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their own secret plan, even though we don't understand it .

Quem não sabe para onde vai não chega a parte nenhuma.

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuanto más vacío está. Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en su estación.

What the flower vendor interpreted as 'pretty nasty' was only the intensity that comes to those who, better late than never, have found a purpose in life and are pursuing it to make up for lost time.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

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