"Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path."
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"I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes."
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"Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites."
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"Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education."
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"I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose."
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"I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps."
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"Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential."
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"The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer"
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"Love gives life purpose and meaning."
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"My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God."
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"Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging."
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"God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you."
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"Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly."
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"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life."
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"Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers."
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"For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life."
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"Love was life's secret purpose."
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"Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet."
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"People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work."
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"Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again."
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