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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end. — Anthony Marais

When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end. — Eckhart Tolle

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi

There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus. — Peter Enns

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. — Immanuel Kant

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end. — Rajneesh

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. — Victor Hugo

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself. — Ted Chiang

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny. — Adetokunbo O. Adeoye

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. — G.K. Chesterton

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. — Gloria Steinem

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. — Sebastian Fitzek

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. — Eckhart Tolle

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end ... It can never be a means to anything but more control ... like junk.. — William S. Burroughs

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing. — Sandra Bullock

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ? — Bill Crawford

Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. — Steven Pinker

The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct. — David Brin

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't think it's by any means an end to my career. — Mario Vazquez

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die. — Victor Hugo

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. — Auliq Ice

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing — Jose Bergamin

The darkroom is just the means to an end. — Kim Weston

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify. — Charles Dickens

Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet. — Jeannette Walls

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it. — Michel De Montaigne

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. — Samuel Beckett

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, — A.W. Tozer

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. — Alan Moore

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end. — Dorothy Wordsworth

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally. — John Galsworthy

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end. — Adolf Hitler

We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult. — William Carey

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. — Ayn Rand

Let yourself believe no means no and you give them the power to end your career. No dosen't mean no, it means not yet. — Maggie Stiefvater

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth. — Peter Kreeft

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life. — Origen

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. — Leon Trotsky

Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur. — Timothy J. Keller

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. — Felix Frankfurter

Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God — Jennifer Hoover

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end. — Eckhart Tolle

All bisexuality means is that someone COULD date anyone, not that they WILL. This stigma needs to end. — Kira Hawke

So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information. — Rod Beckstrom

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man — Abdullah Ibrahim

when they put unknown at the end of a quote, that means they probably don't no how to spell anonymous" -unknown — Tri T. Ha

Because, deep down, you care about her, and in the end, even if it means she has to kill you, you want her to love you." As — Jessica Sorensen

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end — Immanuel Kant

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools. — Adam Weishaupt

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures. — Adolf Hitler

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy. — Swami Vivekananda

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. — Milton William Cooper

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. — John Wesley

Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour. — Anthony Liccione

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end. — Daniel Barber

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. — Robert A. Heinlein

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. — Thomas Troward

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.. — Jac Holzman

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. — Peter Greenaway

I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end. — Brian O'Driscoll

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. — Jackson Pollock

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end. — Pearl Zhu

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. — Eric Drooker

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. — Charles Handy

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody. — Tony Benn

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal. — Francis Chan

To some people, it's not the end that justifies the means. It's the process that they're after, ( ... ) — C.M. Stunich

Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless. — A.J. Darkholme

Animals ... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. — Immanuel Kant

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too. — John Slattery

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it. — C.S. Lewis

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. — Nhat Hanh

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live. — Blaise Pascal

Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything ... but an end in itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right. — William J. Brennan

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end. — William Whewell

The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed. — Robert Ludlum

I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused. — Albert Camus

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end. — Satish Kumar

When people say 'marriage' to me ... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. — Lady Gaga

Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself. — Peter Gleick

I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception. — Cristiana Di Palma

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school. — Rachel Nichols

I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end. — Olusegun Obasanjo

Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself — Garry Kasparov

Liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end — William Faulkner