"Purposefulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turned out from that admirable institution, Beulah's class could without exaggeration be designated as the most purposeful class of them all. That Beulah was not the most purposeful member of her class merely argues that an almost abnormally high standard of purposefulness was maintained by practically every individual ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... [Footnote ref 2]. A quotation from Rajavarttika (a work about which there is no definite information) in Vacaspati Mis'ra's commentary on the Sa@mkhya karika(72) says that it was called the @Sa@s@titantra because it dealt with the existence of prak@rti, its oneness, its difference from puru@sas, its purposefulness for puru@sas, the multiplicity of puru@sas, connection and separation from puru@sas, the ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta
... will wish to read aloud certain passages from these longer units because of their beauty, their dramatic quality, or the forceful way in which the author has expressed his thoughts. Class readings are frequently suggested for this purpose. In this way reading aloud is given purposefulness. ...
— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
... inability of its Uncle Sam to meet the deepest needs on account of which men at their best have been religious. This deified projection of our ideals we made up ourselves and so we cannot really pray to him; he does not objectively exist and so has no unifying meaning which puts purposefulness into creation and hope ahead of it; he does not care for any one or anything and so we may not trust him; and neither in sin can he forgive, cleanse, restore, empower, nor in sorrow comfort and sustain. A god who functions so poorly ...
— Christianity and Progress • Harry Emerson Fosdick
... Intensity and purposefulness and harmony. These are what everyday life affords but rarely to our longings. And this is what, thanks to this strange process of Empathy, a few inches of painted canvas, will sometimes allow us to realise completely and uninterruptedly. And it is ...
— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee |
