Quotes on Aim

Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.