purpose Quotes

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.