Human Purpose Quotes

Man was not made for the world, but the world for man.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we are made to serve each other.

Buildings have been made because of man.

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.