Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
The ends must justify the means.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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