Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
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Successful action tends to become an end in itself
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DAISAKU IKEDA 
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. 
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. 
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. 
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. 
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to... 
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ... 
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. 
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,... 
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an a... 
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still rem... 
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so tha... 
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; ... 
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never... 
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. 
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin... 
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but... 
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... 
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... 
Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity. 
Good swiping is an art in itself 
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence... 
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. 
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. 
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. 
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre... 
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. 
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. 
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. 
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the
end. 
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. 
The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, ... 
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself. 
An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself. 
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline m... 
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune. 
Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual... 
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. 
Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory 
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t... 
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l... 
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. 
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for t... 
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring. 
Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.] 
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. 
In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judg... 
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagina... 
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indi... 
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. 
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread... 
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. 
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! 
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. 
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th... 
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, t... 
Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in... 
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself. 
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt... 
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re... 
An illustration that does not complement a story, in the end, will become but a false idol. Since we... 
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the im... 
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, ... 
Successful action tends to become an end in itself 
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on... 
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.