Quotes tagged Purpose

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“He does not know why he lives but he lives, and he lives because he does not know why he must die. He will go on this way, doing his little things, enjoying the little victories, adopting morals invented by other people, secretly supporting the ideologies of third-rate men and, at dinner time, quoting the philosophies of the extraordinary whom people like him have never allowed to live in peace.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Happiness as an inescapable fate, not a pursuit.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The birth of every human is nature’s blind shot at achieving something grander. It constantly fails but by producing billions of people nature is improving its chances of attaining a mysterious goal.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Nature creates a huge quantity of life so that, through trial and error, through the extinction and the evolution of billions of lumps of flesh over a vast period of time, it will finally attain its goal — a particular kind of neurological system.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it — so if you don’t know why you do what you do, how will anyone else?”
Limitless
“A goal is the point one wishes to achieve. A purpose is the reason one aims at to achieve a goal.”
Limitless
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