Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. Joseph Addison
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness! James Freeman Clarke
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. Theodor Adorno
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. Arthur Young
She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me. Orson Scott Card
Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function - to excite the viewers toward sublime thought. Glory to the world, that good teacher. Mary Oliver