Purpose Quotes - page 9

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions - perhaps so that we could believe in them. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding? View quote
Julian Schwinger
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death. View quote
Henry Miller
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. View quote
Henry Miller
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The purpose of organizations is to exploit the fact that many (virtually all) decisions require the participation of many individuals for their effectiveness. View quote
Kenneth Arrow
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. View quote
Stephen Fry
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. View quote
Joseph Addison
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness. (William Saroyan)
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt [Black Panther Party] and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking. View quote
Roger Ebert
The essential purpose of the interiors of buildings is to enclose rather than direct space, and to separate the inside from the outside. View quote
Robert Venturi
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all? View quote
Samuel Adams
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite. View quote
Peter Medawar
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature. View quote
Peter Medawar
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life. (Morarji Desai)
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose. View quote
Ashley Judd
Your life is your story and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. View quote
Kerry Washington
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. View quote
Joan Robinson