“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.”
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 65.
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo.”
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”
"The Common Language of Science", a broadcast for Science, Conference, London, 28 September 1941. Published in Advancement of Science, London, Vol. 2, No. 5. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954), the quote appearing on this page http://books.google.com/books?id=OeUoXHoAJMsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT357#v=onepage&q&f=false.
1940s
“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
President Serzh Sargsyan participated at the solemn event dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) http://www.president.am/events/news/eng/?pn=4&id=1366 (December 18, 2010)
Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 67
Context: Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity, who is able to affirm his being, if need be, against all other beings and the whole inorganic world.
“We will not define our goal, but when we reach our goal we will duplicate the goal.”
Eternal
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
“What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals?”
As quoted in Venceremos! The Speeches and Writings of Ernesto Che Guevara (1968) by John Gerassi, p. 98
Context: What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? The great lines we must follow? From the political point of view, the first thing we want is to be masters of our own destiny, a country free from foreign interference, a country that seeks out its own system of development.
