Tom Stoppard Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Media, Might, Pressure

• Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

  Tom Stoppard

  Sex, Two, Numbers

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.11, Faber & Faber

• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Light, Shining

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.71, Grove Press

• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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