Quotes by Purpose Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries. Benjamin Tucker libertygovernmentpurpose America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes. Bernard-Henri Levy energypurposeamerica Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies. Bernard Lietaer currencydifferentpurpose The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Bernard Malamud purpose The purpose of fun is to live it. Bernie De Koven purposefun The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world. Bernie Glassman enlightenmentpurposepractice When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny. Bertice Berry destinypurposemotivational With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. Bertolt Brecht shouldersmajoritypurpose Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. Bertrand Russell atheismpurposereligion A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. Bertrand Russell purposemindthinking The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis. Bertrand Russell purposeworldreligion Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes . Bertrand Russell mathematicscausespurpose The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. Bertrand Russell finalspurposeplato If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time. Bertrand Russell purposeimaginationheaven The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. Bertrand Russell teachdefensepurpose Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose. Beth Moore purpose The purpose exceeds the pain. Beth Moore bethpainpurpose Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. Beth Moore comparing-yourselfcomparepurpose If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives. Betsy Landin positivelytrust-in-godpurpose Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives. Betsy Landin everything-happens-for-a-reasonpurposemight«1011121314151617181920»
