Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.
Tag: life consciousness truth reality acceptance buddhism purpose meaning-of-life zen meaning self-awareness self-knowledge awareness perfection purpose-of-life awakening know-thyself
Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: purpose religion hell determination
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Christian D. LarsonTag: strength purpose strong mercy weak
Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.
PenTag: purpose daydreaming daydream visualization visualize
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?
Julian SchwingerTag: science purpose understanding physics quantum-mechanics fundamentals nobel-laureate particle-physics theoretical-physics
The fanatic emphasis on ‘Plan B’ that professionals talk about is not a coward’s fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.
Andy PaulaTag: purpose coward plan-b professionals alternate
Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!
Israelmore AyivorTag: passion purpose work dreams water action food-for-thought working talents hard-work act concrete air mass hard do-something blow do-it work-hard dream-big big-dreams exposed expose israelmore-ayivor action-taking cement god-s-gift take-actions use-your-talents water-your-dreams
To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless task and I gave it up. I turned to him with a smile and finished, 'To tell you the truth we don't do it because it is useful but because it's amusing.' The answer was thought of and given in a moment: it came from deep down in my mind, and the results were as admirable from my point of view as unexpected. My audience was clearly on my side. Prolonged and hearty applause greeted my confession. My questioner retired shaking his head over my wickedness and the newspapers next day, with obvious approval, came out with headlines 'Scientist Does It Because It's Amusing!' And if that is not the best reason why a scientist should do his work, I want to know what is. Would it be any good to ask a mother what practical use her baby is? That, as I say, was the first evening I ever spent in the United States and from that moment I felt at home. I realised that all talk about science purely for its practical and wealth-producing results is as idle in this country as in England. Practical results will follow right enough. No real knowledge is sterile. The most useless investigation may prove to have the most startling practical importance: Wireless telegraphy might not yet have come if Clerk Maxwell had been drawn away from his obviously 'useless' equations to do something of more practical importance. Large branches of chemistry would have remained obscure had Willard Gibbs not spent his time at mathematical calculations which only about two men of his generation could understand. With this trust in the ultimate usefulness of all real knowledge a man may proceed to devote himself to a study of first causes without apology, and without hope of immediate return.
Archibald HillTag: science knowledge reason purpose understanding scientists discovery chemistry study amusing discoveries practical electromagnetism pragmatic applications practical-application james-clerk-maxwell james-maxwell willard-gibbs
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…
Alexander the GreatTag: purpose justice peace memory sea culture greece dionysus conquest india diogenes barbarian hercules civilize hellenic macedonia perseus
Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can be priceless like that of love which is everything, connection, inspiration, devotion, attention, purpose…
Di LeeTag: love purpose inspiration connection devotion giving attention
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