Means Quotes
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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Soreness is not something you should always look for. It's good once in a while: it means you are pushing back on plateaus. But just because you aren't sore doesn't mean you aren't working hard.
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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More always means worse.
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Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The best content is the means, not the end.
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But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
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It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
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The end is inherent in the means.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
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“You count,” he said softly. “That’s what it means, to not belong - it means that you count. It wouldn’t be bearable if you didn’t know it would end.
