Adam Smith Quotes, Self Quotes, Purpose Quotes

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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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

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I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

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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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Do your work, but do your thing.

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History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

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Having purpose. I had purpose during my presidency, and I've got purpose after my presidency.

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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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

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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

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