目的
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Behavior is not just a response to a stimulus, but is guided by expectations and purposes.
Purposive behavior in animals and men.
Behavior, as such, is not to be regarded as a mere chain of muscular contractions, but rather as a purposive and cognitive affair.
The concept of purpose has no place in a scientific account of behavior.
The purpose of psychology is to understand how life works.
The purpose of mental activity is successful living.
The purpose of psychology is to explain how we manage to live.
Mental activity is always directed toward some end.
Every thought serves some biological purpose.
The stream of thought flows toward purposeful ends.
The purpose of mental activity is to guide action.
To understand the mind, we must first understand its evolutionary purpose.
The purpose of psychology is to understand how we cope with the world.
To understand behavior, we must look at its purpose in the context of survival and adaptation.
We think not in isolated ideas, but in continuous streams of purpose-directed activity.