Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Purpose Quotes

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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The purpose of life is to be happy.

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

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There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

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The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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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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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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I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

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Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy

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

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

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Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

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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 very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

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