Means To An End Quotes by Edith Stein, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Moby, John Galsworthy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Hunter S. Thompson and many others.
On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
When I saw music as a means to an end – more fame, more money, dating celebrities – that’s when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it’s really good, it’s just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.
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.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them … art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That’s the very foundation of your life.
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
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.
Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
