#purpose

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#artist #away #bizarre #break #get

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#deepening #purpose #save #spirit

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ↗

— William Herschel

#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#credit #exclusively #human #i #i see

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#lie #many #purposes

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#idea #purpose #recycling #start #use

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#claims #culture #drowned #each #education

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#i #like #makes #me #phenomenon

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself. ↗

— Graham Swift

#express #itself #join #mating #mounting