Purposes Quotes

• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Regard
  • Machine
  • Movements

• The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Existence
  • Rate
  • Volition

• That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Government
  • Required
  • Receives

• The foreword to the landmark 1980 DSM-III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise—so imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes. As we will see, that modesty was tragically short-lived.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Purposes
  • Acknowledged
  • Landmark

• Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Adults
  • Fantasies
  • Tastes

• The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • God
  • Lives
  • Point

• Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

  

  Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Control
  • Purposes
  • Setback

• I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Photograph
  • Consideration
  • Purposes

• Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my master's gave me a certain amount of confidence. I don't think college is the only path, but I enjoyed it and it worked out very well for me. I had some good friends with whom I could get a little crazy, but still be responsible. It was the perfect bridge from living at home to independence. I also love learning. I might have been a professional student and earned a couple of doctorates, if I didn't have to pay bills.

  

  Regina Hall
  • Friends
  • College
  • Perfect

• Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Purposes

• As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.

  

  Karla Cheatham Mosley
  • Exercise
  • Purposes
  • Notorious

• To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

  

  Sarah Brady
  • Reason
  • Guns
  • Purposes

• I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

  

  Edward L. Morse
  • Friendship
  • I See
  • Insincere

• For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.

  

  Bertram Brockhouse
  • Faith
  • Language
  • Religious View

• When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.

  

  Arthur Curley
  • Society
  • Purposes
  • Libraries

• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Desire
  • Lives
  • Source

• He only needs me for certain purposes, otherwise it is not possible. This is idiocy.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Needs
  • Purposes
  • Idiocy

• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  

  Charles Lichenstein
  • United States
  • Legislation
  • United Nations

• It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.

  

  Alan Brinkley
  • History
  • Should
  • Significance

• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Pieces
  • According

• Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Church
  • Baptism
  • God's Children

• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Punishment
  • Correct
  • Resurrection

• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  

  Anthony W. Ivins
  • Power
  • Nation
  • Purposes

• Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

  

  David F. Wells
  • Evil
  • Serve
  • Purposes

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