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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
— Christopher Columbus purpose
I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
— Albert Einstein purpose
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
— Leo Tolstoy purpose
There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt purpose
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
— Dalai Lama purpose
All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to makeeverywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social , we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh .was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of .
— Walt Disney purpose
I think a label like "avant-garde" defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.
— John Lennon purpose
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
— Ronald Reagan purpose
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
— John Cage purpose
We are in a troublesome period, and some "nonsense" as you term it — but this is a great nation with a high purpose, and we shall come to our senses and resume our course.
— Harry S. Truman purpose
I shall keep it [the manuscript] by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
— Bertrand Russell purpose
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
— Napoleon I of France purpose
The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of "disordered" but of "ordered universe" upon the whole.
— Aristotle purpose
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower purpose
A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, sir; what is the purpose of courts of justice? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence — what shall be the result of legal argument.
— Samuel Johnson purpose
[Calvin and Hobbes are waiting for the school bus] Calvin: How long have we been waiting for the bus now? Hobbes: (looking at his watch) About two and a half hours. Calvin: I think mom put me out here this early on purpose! p123
— Bill Watterson purpose
It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.
— Theodore Roosevelt purpose
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
— Animals purpose
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
— George W. Bush purpose
This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous – indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
— Richard Dawkins purpose
The circle of our understanding Is a very restricted area. Except for a limited number Of strictly practical purposes We do not know what we are doing; And even then, when you think of it, We do not know much about thinking.
— T. S. Eliot purpose
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson purpose
Yesterday, you know, Mr. Earnshaw should have been at the funeral. He kept himself sober for the purpose - tolerably sober; not going to bed mad at six o'clock, and getting up drunk at twelve. Consequently he rose, in suicidal low spirits; as fit for the church as for a dance; and instead, he sat down by the fire and swallowed gin or brandy by tumblerfuls.
— Emily Bront purpose
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley purpose
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
— Edmund Burke purpose
Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
— William Wordsworth purpose
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
— Edward Young purpose
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
— Joseph Addison purpose
He who does not know what the world is, does not know where he is. And he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is. But he who has failed in any one of these things could not even say for what purpose he exists himself. What then dost thou think of him who [avoids or] seeks the praise of those who applaud, of men who know not either where they are or who they are?
— Marcus Aurelius purpose
Leontes: Hermione, my dearest, thou never spok'st To better purpose.Hermione: Never?Leontes: Never, but once.Hermione: What! have I twice said well? when was't before?
— The Winter's Tale purpose
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
— Carl Jung purpose
Piety is not an end but a means to attain ... the highest degree of culture. This is why ... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe purpose
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 purpose
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
— Larry Wall purpose
The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.
— W. Somerset Maugham purpose
[Director James] Cameron manhandles the real story, scavenging it for his own puny narrative purposes. It's a film made with boorish confidence and zero sensitivity, big and dumb and hulking.
— Stephanie Zacharek purpose
Samuel Adams had not inherited poverty nor had he, after all, exactly embraced it, but had as it were naturally drifted into it through indifference to worldly gain, the indifference which men of single and fixed purpose have for all irrelevant matters.
— Carl Becker purpose
This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
— Charles Lamb purpose
is formalized . It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of theand they that dwell therein.
— Zora Neale Hurston purpose
I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it "teleological evolution," evolution with a purpose.
— Jonas Zalk purpose
Execute their airy purposes.
— Paradise Lost purpose
If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
— Carl Sagan purpose
Ais a 's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
— Robert Heinlein purpose
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has...
— Leaves of Grass purpose
That which submits rules. ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.
— Dune purpose
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
— Frank Herbert purpose
What is the purpose of Life? — Proof and conjecture, and keep the SF's score low.
— Paul Erd¶s purpose
Tyler built himself an army. Why was Tyler Durden building an army? To what purpose? For what greater good? In Tyler we trusted.
— Fight Club (film) purpose
He believed you could reach the East by going west. That is true enough, if you don't overdo it. You can reach Long Island City by taking the ferry for Weehawken, but nobody does it on purpose.
— Will Cuppy purpose
"First, how do you prove that mankind is invested with the right of killing them, and that brutes have been created for the purpose you assert them to be? Secondly, it is to be observed that the flesh of man himself possesses the same nourishing and palatable qualities? Are we then to become cannibals for that reason? "
— Vegetarianism purpose
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
— Criminal purpose
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
— Logic purpose
When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.
— Vladimir Lenin purpose
Theon the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
— Eric Hoffer purpose
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.
— Theodor Adorno purpose
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.
— Juan Gris purpose
: I am no longer Doctor Occult, although we share certain purposes in common. He is himself, as I am me. But I am still your guide.
— The Books of Magic purpose
This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel purpose
"Why is a Kennaston?" he asked himself — thus whimisically voicing a real desire to know if human beings were intended for any especial purpose. Most of us find it more comfortable, upon the whole, to stave off such queries — with a jest, a shrug, or a Scriptural quotation, as best suits personal taste; but Kennaston was "queer" enough to face the situation quite gravely.
— James Branch Cabell purpose
[a mobile phone rings] If you have a portable surveillance and tracking device, please turn it off. They have already tracked you in here, they already know you are listening to me; so, there is no need for you to keep it on. And by the way, these portable tracking devices emit signals for tracking purposes even when they are apparently switched off; the only way to stop them is to take out all the batteries. And if they want to listen, they don't have to do it through your portable surveillance device, I expect recordings will be posted they can listen to those, and they are even welcome to come and attend. So there is absolutely no reason why your portable tracking and surveillance device has to be on.
— Richard Stallman purpose
Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient forpurposes.
— Fascism purpose
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
— Claude Levi Strauss purpose
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt purpose
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
— Lincoln purpose
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
— Alvar Aalto purpose
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
— Abu Abbas purpose
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
— Henry Adams purpose
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler purpose
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
— Aesop purpose
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
— Buzz Aldrin purpose
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
— Bill Alexander purpose
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
— Samuel Alexander purpose
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
— James Allen purpose
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
— A. R. Ammons purpose
I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
— Laurie Halse Anderson purpose
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
— Richard Dean Anderson purpose
The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.
— Colin Angle purpose
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
— William Henry Ashley purpose
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
— Alan Autry purpose
I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
— Iggy Azalea purpose
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
— Ibrahim Babangida purpose
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
— John Badham purpose
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.
— Lionel Barber purpose
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
— Bernard Baruch purpose
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
— Saint Basil purpose
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
— Cecil Beaton purpose
The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
— Rand Beers purpose
It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
— Anne F. Beiler purpose
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict purpose
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
— Walter Benjamin purpose
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
— Bo Bennett purpose
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
— Andrew Bernstein purpose
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
— Kathryn Bigelow purpose
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
— Ronald Biggs purpose
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
— Joan Blades purpose
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
— Tony Blair purpose
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
— Ato Boldon purpose
The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
— Emma Bonino purpose
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
— Daniel Boone purpose
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
— Neal Boortz purpose
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