Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Unfortunately religion like patriotism is easy to misuse for political purposes.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot sir! Why patriots spring up like mushrooms!

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself but in so doing he identifies himself with people - that is people everywhere not for the purpose of taking them apart but simply revealing their true nature.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.