#purpose

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. ↗

— Horace

#doing #mankind #many #more #portion

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? ↗

— Horace

#grasp #harass #mind #purposes #them

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

#design #even #everywhere #intention #most

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #human #make #other #people

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#good #high #more #need #none

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#make-a-difference #purpose #purpose-of-life #life

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#death #grave #habits #issues #problems

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#authority #authority figures #children #figures #only

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

#aim #devote #legitimate #purpose #single