Means To An End Quotes

• 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.

  Edith Stein

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

  Tony Robbins

  Meaningful, Moving, Goal

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Mean, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Compassion, People

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• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mean, Eugenics, Democracy

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Money, Mean

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• 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.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, Mean, Fighting

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Humanity, Way

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• Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Humanity, Use

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• Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Being Yourself, Mean

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Winning, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Sake, Ends

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.15, Sounds True

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

  Francis Chan

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• 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

  Health, Mean, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

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• 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

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Moby

  Mean, Dating, Feelings

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 09, 2011.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Ends

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• Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
  learn how to use time constructively.
  It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
  Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Teaching, Mean, Miracle

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• If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.

  Michael Gungor

  Song, Mean, People

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• The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.

  Otto Weininger

  Mean, Past, Men

  Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

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