purpose Quotes

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.