“An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.”
“Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.”
“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
“Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.”