All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Purpose”

“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
“One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.”
“In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.”
“Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.”
“Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.”
“We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
“Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
“When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.”
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”

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