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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Aristotle
Over You, Needs, Purpose

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Aristotle
Purpose
Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.2078, Catholic Way Publishing

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Aristotle
Doe, Purpose, God And Nature
Aristotle (1971). “On the heavens”, Loeb Classical Library

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Aristotle
Art, Reality, Purpose

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Aristotle
Mean, Desire, Purpose
Aristotle (1879). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Aristotle
Character, Purpose, Virtue
Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Aristotle
Purpose, Accidents

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

Aristotle
Law, Style, Purpose

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Aristotle
Life, Archer, Purpose

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Aristotle
Order, Would Be, Purpose
Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

Aristotle
Together, Purpose, Noble

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