Quotes About Purpose

But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...

Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?

Deja de pensar tonterías y actúa.

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virture-- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent—and in an absolute sense we can know nothing—a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.

Her ÅŸeyin ula??labilir olduÄŸu bir dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin anlam? yoktur

that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Can you say something about nothing? That's what it finally boils down to. I try and I try.

that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

El secreto de la felicidad y la virtud consiste en amar lo que hacemos; es decir, el destino social que nos corresponde y del que no podremos ni querremos librarnos.

el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento va hacia esto: hacer que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing anything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can't be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.

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este es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento se dirige a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.

No basta que las frases sean buenas; también debe ser bueno lo que se hace con ellas.

la alambrada seguía ininterrumpidamente la línea recta, el símbolo geométrico del propósito humano triunfante.

one of Huxley's points: in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.

And that (...) is the secret of happiness and virtue —liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless.