Horace Quotes, Mind Quotes, Purpose Quotes

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

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There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

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I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

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It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

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I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose

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