81 Metaphors for purpose

But if the will ([Greek: proairesis], the purpose, the intention) being what it ought to be, is the only good; and if the will being such as it ought not to be, is the only evil, where is there any strife, where is there reviling?

Since God is infinitely blessed and self-sufficient his purpose in the moral law is man's happiness alone.

And so, again, in the matter of having a man's hat or coat on the rack in the front hall, while there are only women in the house, the sole purpose of the action may be the concealment of the real condition of affairs from those who have no claim to know the truth, and not the deliberate deception of any party in interest.

The German official answer is that its purpose was the protection of German trade.

1. The purpose of muscular contraction is the production of motion.

I see the Kaiser, after consciously declaring that his only purpose is peace, unconsciously blurting out to the British Ambassador that the ultimatum to Serbia is a "plant"that what Germany means is war, that she proposes to attack Belgium, and so on.

He might have to suspend it from time to time, should he determine to continue his commercial career; but the purpose would be nevertheless the ruling influence of his life.

"That purpose being, of course, its substitution for the real original article.

'Purpose is a mere fruit, which holds on or falls only as it must.

The purpose of eating should not be merely the appeasement of hunger or the gratification of the palate, but the acquiring of strength for labor or study, that we may be better fitted for usefulness in the world.

] In Eden bowers, so fair to see, There dwelt, when sin was yet to be, A guileless Serpent up a tree, Sniffing the virgin breezes; Till EVE (the huzzy!), one fine day, With evil purpose came his way, And led that simple worm astray By low and wicked wheezes.

The purpose of a symbol is twofold, to put us upon enquiry as to the reality which it indicates, and to bring that reality to our minds by suggestion when we look at the symbol; but if it does not do this, and we rest only in the symbol, nothing will come of it, and we are left just where we were.

Their degraded Oriental customs have led the Persians to the conclusion that "love has nothing to do with the matrimonial connection," the main purpose of marriage being "the convenience and pleasure of a degenerate people" (34-114).

The same just purposes are also there; and, as I think, the same unflinching determination to pursue to final success the course once deliberately entered upon.

The purpose of poetry, as well as of rhetoric, was to them persuasionto teach, to please, to move.

"For what purpose was so vast a machine constructed at so great a distance?"

My purpose is to wive you. LELIA.

He gives this law an infinite and personal source, and finds the supreme purpose of all law to be a revelation of divine love.

But the ultimate purpose of the machine is a puzzler.

Therefore the conception of an Infinite of Personality necessarily implies a perpetual Unity of Purpose; and for the same reason this Purpose can only be the fuller and fuller expression of an Infinite Unity of Consciousness; and Unity of Consciousness necessarily implies the entire absence of all that would impair it, and therefore its expression can only be as Universal Harmony.

The declared purpose of the enterprise was independence as the alternative of reform in Spanish laws.

The king, impelled more by the love of military glory than by superstition, acted from the beginning of his reign, as if the sole purpose of his government had been the relief of the Holy Land, and the recovery of Jerusalem from the Saracens.

The usual national purposes are forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.

The consensus of classical opinion, then, agrees that the purpose of rhetoric is persuasive public speaking.

It is evident in Howells's description of the Battery that the purpose was the creating of an impression of forlornness, and that the author kept this purpose in mind when choosing the details.

81 Metaphors for  purpose