No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
—Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
—Plato
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
—Plato
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
—Immanuel Kant
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always 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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
—Immanuel Kant
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
—Immanuel Kant
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
—Charlie Chaplin
In the end, everything is a gag.
—Charlie Chaplin
The cross covers, the blood cleanses, and His eternal love will keep that which we have committed unto Him, until that day. Is not this a good word with which to end the year?
—Amy Carmichael
When you feel at the end of everything, do not hesitate to say so to your Father.
—Amy Carmichael
And so I believe that the way of peace is found in looking on to the End of the Lord, not in puzzling over the beginning or the middle of His ways.
—Amy Carmichael
His mercy & grace are infinite & His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their affection.
—Tozer
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
Grace is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the entire work of salvation; it is totally devoid of human merit.
—Herman Bavinck
I trust I shall ere long arrive safe at my journey’s end, where my toils shall cease.
—David Brainerd
Surely God is worthy of my highest affection, and most devout adoration; he is infinitely worthy, that I should make him my last end, and live for ever to him. Oh that I might never more, in any one instance, live to myself!
—David Brainerd
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
—David Brainerd
If you will be for Christ, and be His, you must embrace all pains, watchings, and laborings after holiness to the end of your days: holiness will cost a Christian abundance of labor, but this you must do, or you cannot be Christians.
—John Flavel
(2 Cor. 7:1) Here’s the work of a Christian, cleansing work, and perfecting work in the fear of God, to the end of our lives…. He that is contented with these terms is surely Christ’s as ever was any soul.
—John Flavel
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
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
The church is a divine institution, built by Jesus Christ Himself. It is the one institution that abides. Other institutions come and go; they do their work for the day and disappear, but the church will continue to the end.
—R. A. Torrey
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
—Blaise Pascal
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
—Sigmund Freud
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
—Voltaire
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt