Purpose Quotes - Page 17

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

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.

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

If you have a pulse, you have a purpose!

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.

Passion is the model of all my actions.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.