Quotes About Purpose

People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led.

But we almost died today. It made me realize that I deserve some happiness. And now I don't want just fun.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.

Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away.

Cuanto más viene a ocuparse una razón cultivada del propósito relativo al disfrute de la vida y la felicidad, tanto más alejado queda el hombre de la verdadera satisfacción.

O homem, e, duma maneira geral, todo o ser racional, existe como fim em si mesmo, não só como meio para o uso arbitrário desta ou daquela vontade. Pelo contrário, em todas as suas ações, tanto nas que se dirigem a ele mesmo como nas que se dirigem a outros seres racionais, ele tem sempre de ter considerado simultaneamente como fim.

Quem não sabe o que procura, quando acha não encontra.

Nothing happens by blind chance.

Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.

If there is any science man really needs it is the one I teach, of how to occupy properly that place in creation that is assigned to man, and how to learn from it what one must be in order to be a man.

Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità, sia nella tua persona, sia nella persona di ogni altro, sempre anche come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

purposes are imposed on nature violently and dictatorially, instead of being sought by means of physical investigation.

And don't let the world bring you down, Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold, Remember why you came and while you're alive, Experience the warmth before you grow old...

If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring (Emily Saliers)

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.

The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.

No good would come of all these fine intentions.

I was born to be nothing and to have nothing.