Quotes About Ends

You think life is the vanquisher of death? It is not. Love is. Life is Fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

That's been my challenge. Go out there and guard the best player and get it done on both ends. It's been working out pretty good for me. Just got to keep that thing going.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

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

Praxeology exhibits subjectivism in that it takes actors' subjective ends as they exist in the minds of each person. By refraining from passing judgment on these ends, praxeology itself is objective.

Are all ends of life so sad?

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

But if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends are often equally bloody. We're familiar with political love that ends in tyranny, where a ruler's firm conviction that he has the true interests of his nation at heart ends up lending him the confidence to murder without qualms (and 'for their own good') all who disagree with him. Romantic lovers are similarly inclined to vent their frustration on dissenters and heretics.

In fact, Hutchins continues, by splitting the human lifeworld in the way they do, positivism and pragmatism leave us with "a colossal confusion of means and ends. Wealth and power become the ends of life," because the realm of value is the realm of opinion, in which I seek nothing more than easy justifications for my desires.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Charity may begin at home, but it ends up in the poorhouse.

Fish, he said, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.