Existence Purpose Quotes

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

As long as you're chasing something, that keeps you alive, right?

This universe was made for you and me.

The significance of life is living.

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.