#purpose

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 no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#better #better place #continues #dalai #dalai lama

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect. ↗

— Jose Rizal y Alonso

#country #love #purpose-of-living #strength #women

I think punditry serves no purpose. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i think #purpose #serves #think

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#certainty #earth #however #life #me

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman. ↗

— John Singleton

#gentleman #head #hero #his #like

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. ↗

— Mel Torme

#make #money #obviously #out #purely

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ↗

— Adam Smith

#consumer #consumption #end #far #interest

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. ↗

— Jean Stafford

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