Quotes About Purpose

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.

Öyle bir an geliyor ki,insan?n içinde bir ÅŸeyler k?r?l?yor;ne enerji ne istek kal?yor. YaÅŸamak gerekir diyorlar ama yaÅŸamak son vadede intihara sürükleyen bir sorun

Io non vi dico di prepararvi all'altra vita, ma di usare bene quest'unica vita che vi è data, per affrontare quando verrà, l'unica morte di cui avrete mai esperienza. E' necessario meditare prima, e molte volte, sull'arte del morire, per riuscire a farlo bene una sola volta

We like lists because we don't want to die.

Cartea a dovedit ce poate, È™i nu vedem un alt obiect mai bun pe care l-am putea crea pentru aceeaÈ™i întrebuinÈ›are.

No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone

Yes. Mankind can't endure the thought that the world was born by chance, by mistake, just because four brainless atoms bumped into one another on a slippery highway. So a cosmic plot has to be found—God, angels, devils. Synarchy performs the same function on a lesser scale.

Vivimos para los libros. Dulce misión en este mundo dominado por el desorden y la decadencia.

É verdade, disse Bêncio, sorrindo pela primeira vez com o rosto quase se iluminando. Nós vivemos para os livros. Doce missão neste mundo dominado pela desordem e pela decadência.

It's true," Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

We lists because we don't want to die.

Aut semel aut iterum medium generaliter esto

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Bizler kitaplar için ya??yoruz. KargaÅŸa ve yozlaÅŸman?n egemen olduÄŸu bir dünyada hoÅŸ bir görev bu.

EÄŸer doÄŸru anl?yorsam, bir ÅŸey yap?yorsunuz ve niçin yapt???n?z? biliyorsunuz, ama ne yapt???n?z?, niçin bildiÄŸinizi bilmiyorsunuz.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai.

Not all journeys seek an end. Some are their own purpose.

Now he was passing from the playing space with no role left to play but this last one of dying, that comes to all.

And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning?

Millions of ideas, constantly changing and shifting, drifting into consciousness and out again, and all supposedly at random, with no "soul" to direct them! No purpose, no goal, though every materialist was a living determination to destroy the idea of a soul, and of a God who had anything to do with a purely accidental universe! What a strange accident, that men should labor so purposefully to destroy the idea of purpose!

You know the old doctrine that the end justifies the means. I was reading some modern philosopher the other day and noted the statement that it is the means that determine the end.