Our Purposes Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make…
— Alfred Adler
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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our…
— Norbert Wiener
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only…
— Ann Patchett
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it…
— John Searle
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As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
— Mariella Frostrup
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No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him…
— Dallas Willard
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I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in…
— Kevin Hearne
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Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured,…
— Thomas Troward
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
— John Steinbeck
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English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,…
— Willard Gaylin
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I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of…
— Derek R. Audette
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Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
— Margaret Atwood
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We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
— Gary L. Francione
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For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely,"…
— Cassandra Clare
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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
— Marilynne Robinson
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So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of self-association that no…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who Wrote These Our Purposes Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Our Purposes Quotes as follows: