Quotes About Purpose

Man is inconsolable, thanks to that eternal "Why?" when there is no Why, that question mark twisted like a fishhook in the human heart. "Let there be light," we cry, and only the dawn breaks.

Indeed, the more void the universe may be of meaning, the more precious the lanterns by which man picks his little way through it.

La búsqueda de sentido está condenada al fracaso de antemano porque la vida no tiene "sentido", pero eso no significa que no valga la pena vivirla.

Everything becomes rubbish in the end. We sometimes wonder if people weren't invented as an extra-quick way of making rubbish.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

The Bible's diversity is the key to uncovering the Bible's true purpose for us.

We have to die, and the choice is ours. If we don't, we are still holding on to something. And if we are holding on, we aren't really following. Just sort of following. Standing around. [Oh God, what did I sign up for? This Christianity thing is hard. Deep breath . . .] The apostle Paul chimes in, too: I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. (Galatians 2:19–20)

I believe that God knows best what sort of sacred writing we need. And these three characteristic ways the Bible behaves, rather than posing problems to be overcome, are telling us something about how the Bible actually works and therefore what the Bible's true purpose is—and the need to align our expectations with it.

It seems, then, that the purpose of 3:14–15 is not to introduce a new name, but to underscore the precise identity of the God who is now addressing Moses.

Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.

Something is out there, some society, moving with a malign purpose. A society inimical to ours, bent on destroying us for no reason we know.

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I have come to realize that life is the most precious thing. It matters not where you are, or who you are. All that matters is how that life is lived; and lived it should be, to the full.

The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.

Fancy having to work for a living when you're dead.

Perfection is what we strive for, it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist. (The Evolutionary Void)

We should throw away our arcologies and our starships, and live like the Lord intended

Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist.