Quotes about Purpose
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
- William Hazlitt
The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.
- William Hazlitt
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- William James
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- William James
Man lives for science as well as bread.
- William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
- William James
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
- William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
- William Lane Craig
If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.
- William Lane Craig
The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.
- William Lane Craig
there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.
- William Lane Craig