Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
Everything has an end.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.