Inherent Purpose Quotes

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.