Sentence examples for highest purpose from inspiring English sources

I guess I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

If art's highest purpose was to make visible what Sir Joshua Reynolds called "invariable" ideas of beauty, Rembrandt was compromised by his earthiness.

Rather, higher education's highest purpose is to give all citizens the opportunity to find "large and human significance" in their lives and work.

For the highest purpose of a democratic government is to bring a society together and hold it together, not to divide it with fears, with rumours of wars, with acts of belligerence against other and then against its own.

History may conclude that the way in which those guilty of crimes in the Watergate affair were brought to justice did more lasting damage to the highest purpose of American law than did the crimes themselves.

Classicism's first principle decreed that only the representation of ideal forms could give art universal authority, while Rembrandt, these critics asserted, believed the opposite: that only a shockingly unedited version of natural truth could serve art's highest purpose.

Meeting these basics is, he maintained, among government's highest purposes and priorities.

"There was no higher purpose there.

A culture that had a higher purpose".

Even lighter stories have a higher purpose.

There is a higher purpose at play.