Top 75 The Purpose Of Human Life Quotes
#1. We humans can never learn everything. The purpose of human life is not to learn everything. Rather it is to learn from every single walk of life and put that knowledge into practice in the pursuit of making human life a little better.
Abhijit Naskar
#2. The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
Ian Gardner
#3. The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine
#4. The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#6. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
#7. In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
Aldous Huxley
#8. As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person's occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God's eyes.
Billy Graham
#9. The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Josef Albers
#10. Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#11. Human existence is as a result of the product of time
Sunday Adelaja
#12. When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
Clifford D. Simak
#13. Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life-
Sai Baba
#14. Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
Melinda Gates
#15. The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#16. Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with the changing fashion and beauty standards
Sunday Adelaja
#17. As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.
Stephanie Mills
#18. Honorata's story reminds me of the extraordinary power of the human spirit to withstand almost anything. Her story also speaks to the power of service, to living a life of purpose, and to keeping the flame of hope alive. (175)
Jacqueline Novogratz
#19. It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
James Van Allen
#21. A 'biomass' man tries to look good on the outside but inside he is afraid of himself
Sunday Adelaja
#22. The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.
Erik Naggum
#23. What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love ...
Ottessa Moshfegh
#24. The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. - the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans
Brian Herbert
#26. Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
A. Powell Davies
#27. If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are manmade concept and that every one's purpose in life is to serve Humanity at large...
Husam Wafaei
#28. ... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
C. G. Jung
#29. Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
Richard Dawkins
#30. The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.
John Kador
#31. The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.
Patch Adams
#32. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
Anne Rice
#33. Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
#34. If I do not know the purpose for which human life was designed, I have no basis for saying that any kind of human life-style is good or bad.
Lesslie Newbigin
#35. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
#36. Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#37. The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.
Vatsal Surti
#38. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
Dainin Katagiri
#39. One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#40. Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#41. The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
Widad Akreyi
#42. My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions ... . The dove is my emblem ... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it ... . I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill ... .
Thomas A. Edison
#43. The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.
Olaf Stapledon
#44. ...We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves; but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging; thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#45. The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
Lin Yutang
#46. There is clearly a sacred dimension to our existence, and coming to terms with it could well be the highest purpose of human life.
Sam Harris
#47. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
C. G. Jung
#49. The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.
Abhijit Naskar
#50. .. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#51. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Gretchen Rubin
#52. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
Phil Klay
#53. Yet in this big world, even the smallest sliver of a human had purpose.
Nicki Elson
#54. In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.
Michael Ondaatje
#55. The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#56. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.
Lewis Mumford
#57. The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#58. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.
Fazlur Rahman
#59. Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man
Sunday Adelaja
#60. For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.
T.F. Hodge
#61. We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator's point of view
Sunday Adelaja
#62. We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.
Oswald Chambers
#63. Every human act had a power behind it, every power had an authority, and every authority had a purpose-dirty bombs constituted by free will and amended by angelic and demonic influence unto the driving of humanity-it was very much active directing. ~RUIN Katara Aggelos
Lucian Bane
#64. Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
Tatyana Tolstaya
#65. Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
Charles M. Schwab
#66. If there is no God, and life is a chance product of blind material forces, what purpose does human life have? Is it just a chemical accident on a rock flying through the cold, empty reaches of space?
Nancy Pearcey
#67. You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and
knowledge.
There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.
Gerhard
#68. Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
Harry Truman
#69. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. -make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being ...
Aldous Huxley
#71. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
Paul Kurtz
#72. A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.
Nathaniel Branden
#73. When a human being is brought up with the concern of simply taking care of his body and the external aspect of his life, he is acting as though he is only biomass
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
Simon Sinek
#75. In Nature, the purpose of life is to achieve a goal. In human terms, it is called happiness.
Joey Lawsin
