"Purposive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... live for?' he repeated. 'I suppose I live to work, to produce something, in so far as I am a purposive being. Apart from that, I ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... those of pleasure and pain, are, by nature, as entirely independent of them as is thinking. An animal devoid of the feelings of pleasure and of pain, may nevertheless exhibit all the effects of sensation and purposive action. Therefore, it would be a justifiable hypothesis that, long after organic evolution had attained to consciousness, pleasure and pain were still absent. Such a world would be without either happiness or misery; no act ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley
... All purposive actions are ultimately based on philosophy of one sort or another. If, for example, we find a rich man founding hospitals for the poor, we may assume that he believes in the principle of Charity. It is, therefore, of prime importance to determine ...
— Birth Control • Halliday G. Sutherland |
