Quotes About Purpose

All I have ever wanted is to fight for what is good and clean and bright. All I want is to know who I am and where I belong. And I belong here, lord, as a Companion.

It is not what we do that is important. It is why we do it.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Todo necesita justificar su existencia, salvo la obra de arte.

Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.