For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called… — David Shibley Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There are many ways to express our purpose in life -- to be the caretakers of the Earth Mother and all her… — Lee Standing Bear Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I got my first pilot license, an airplane private pilot license, in 1997 for the purpose of going to pick up my… — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group.… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny- he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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