I come, therefore I am... No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose".
I shall continue to strive, to think, for in work alone is Man's purpose.
Man's purpose, as a thinking animal, is to clear his mind of junk - to rid himself of illusions.
On the other hand, he attributed his clear, balanced style of writing to his early grounding in the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible; in The World of Sound he wrote, "From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it".
He said his Christian faith led him to believe that "a man's purpose is to marry a woman for children to propagate the family" and said that while he was not opposed to gay marriage now, he said it was wrong that heterosexual couples were not allowed to form civil partnerships.
A man walked by me in the street and said, 'Gondoliere dove va?' " — "Gondolier, where are you going?" The comment was doubly sarcastic, posed, as it was, in the formal tense, but I was too enthralled by the city to notice: "I will never be quite the same after Venice because it has shown me that man can create true beauty and that I believe is Man's purpose".
Andrei Bitov addresses questions of man's purpose, of human imperfection, of how the human being fits into the landscape.
Anti-pornography feminists Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, influenced by Immanuel Kant's conception of objectification, have famously argued that, due to men's consumption of pornography, women as a group are reduced to the status of mere tools for men's purposes.
He knew the sea to be "impenetrable and heartless," giving "nothing of itself to the suitors for its precarious favors… its fickleness is to be held true to men's purposes only by an undaunted resolution, and by a sleepless, armed, jealous vigilance, in which, perhaps, there has always been more hate than love".
"There was quite enough human nature in Wessex for one man's literary purpose".
