Adrift Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image “You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adrift Ends Mean Stills Thinking
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good. — Marghanita Laski Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift… — King Krule Copy Share Image
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