Purpose - Quotes
Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?".
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
We can`t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn`t want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
Darwin`s idea of evolution by natural selection is, in my opinion, the single best idea that anybody has ever had, because in a single bold stroke it unites meaning with matter, two aspects of reality that appear to be worlds apart. On one side, we have the world of our minds and their meanings, our goals, our hopes, and our yearnings, and that most honored - and hackneyed - of all philosophical topics, the Meaning of Life. On the other side, we have galaxies ceaselessly wheeling, planets falling pointlessly into their orbits, lifeless chemical mechanisms doing what physics ordains, all without purpose or reason. Then Darwin comes along and shows us how the former arises from the latter, creating meaning as it goes, a bubble-up vision of the birth of importance to overthrow the trickle-down vision of tradition.
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You can`t win Valentine`s Day. It defeats the whole purpose if you make it into some silly competition.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.
Rarely does one encounter a combination of human traits quite so frightening as a psychopath with a purpose.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.