Quotes About Purpose

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Art is the proper task of life.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If you know the why, you can live any how.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

Die at the right time

Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke? Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude. Free from what? What doth that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?

I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man.

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.