“The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.” KnowsFeelsI CanSometimesHelpingSpiritPurposeExistenceKnow HowHavensInspireProductsMusic IsTunesThroatHow You Feel Author:Bob Dylan
“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.” IfsHumansEndsSeemsLife IsPurposeHeavenImaginationExistenceMankindEternalAimHuman LifeStrifeIncarnationHuman ExistenceDevouring Book:Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel
“We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.” MeanEndsAbleDesirePurposeNaturalExistenceObjectsParticularActivityAll ThingsWeightServingFacultyInclinationDiscernmentSuitableCompatibleFulfilment Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” HumansLooksHeartLongSoulDreamLightPurposeNightExistenceVisionDarknessClearDoorsEgoConsciousMereIntimateCosmicSoleHuman ExistenceKindlesMemories Dreams ReflectionsPrimeval Author:Carl Jung
“It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.” MenBelieveStatesPurposeNationsChurchUnitedExistencePrinciplesUnited StatesWiseDutyBirthMembersConstitutionConstantRaisedInspiredTheologyRepublicConstitution Of The United StatesErosion Author:David O. McKay
“In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.” WorldMeanWarMatterFactsGovernmentPurposeRealizingViewsExistenceMankindWeaponsNuclearPeacefulAcknowledgeWar Of The WorldsUrgesNuclear WeaponsEmployedDisputesFinding PeaceSettlementFuture World Author:Bertrand Russell
“Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.” IfsShouldChildrenPersonsBookStoriesHomeJoyPurposeExistenceFailingLandLessonsShould HaveClimateDelightfulGeographyJoy Of LivingStory Book Author:Charlotte Mason
“In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.” PeopleKnowsWayTwoPurposeSufferingGoalExistenceCenturyCreatingWorking ItNew WaysMillennium Author:Anton Chekhov