Thus, it is either necessary to switch the entire cultural process from top to bottom to the Ukrainian language, or to be consistent and end Ukrainian literature and not put writers in a terrible, unenviable, difficult situation, which probably has no equal anywhere in the world, in any nation , which respects itself, and a government that respects its people.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
—Thomas Edison
Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
—Immanuel Kant
The Russian democrat ends where the Ukrainian question begins.
“Humility is an enormously important quality. You can’t win without it. Survival in the end is where the winners are by definition, and survival begins with humility.”
— Peter Bernstein
The knowledge of ourselves, in reference to our supernatural end, is no small portion of our wisdom.
—John Owen
“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”
“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
Truth is forgotten in an argument. He who ends the argument is the smartest one.
—Leo Tolstoy
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
—Nikolai Gogol
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
—Julius Caesar
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
—Immanuel Kant
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
—Seneca
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.
—Immanuel Kant
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
—Seneca
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
—Ernest Hemingway
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
—Plato
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience, it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
—Seneca
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
—Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
—Plato