Quotes About Purpose

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

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.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

I'm going to live my life like I've got one life to live.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.