“While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.” HumansLife IsValuesIndividualHuman BeingsRightsUltimateAimRemainsMedicinePrimariesAbortionProtectedPromotionDefencePro LifeIndividual Life Author:Pope Francis
“The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.” IfsThinkingRealFeelingsWould BeLife IsPurposeWatchesTelevisionDrinkMessagesAnd LoveAimWestSuperiorsReasonableDivinityPurpose Of LifeEntityWholenessEarningConsumingLove And RespectAim Of Life Author:Bernard d'Espagnat
“Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.” MenLooksSometimesLife IsFallTermAnimalExistenceStrangePrideBuiltAimGuiltMereSatisfiedSubstanceObsessedOverwhelmingComplacencyMundaneStirring Author:Lewis Mumford
“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.” MindUsePoliticalLife IsOpportunityIndividualSocialDemocracyProgressAchieveDependsTruth IsUniversalAimSalvationContemplationDaily LifeRealisingBrotherhoodSocial ProgressIndividual LifeEnrichmentEquality Of OpportunityAim Of Life Author:Bhagat Singh
“Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.” Life IsGoalPsychologyAimExcellenceStriveOrganismsLiving Organisms Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.” HumansPoliticalLife IsNationsSidesLinesPerfectUnitedStruggleConditionsHuman NatureConflictDrawsEssenceAimInstitutionsCompetitionDestructiveRelativeMeaninglessAbstractionUnited NationsDegeneratesDisruptiveEssence Of LifePolitical InstitutionsUnescoLife Is A StrugglePerfect Peace Author:Javier Perez de Cuellar