purpose Quotes

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

We fight wars so that we can live in peace.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things... ...

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

“Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.”

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

It is clear that some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.