Quotes About Purpose

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

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

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.