Quote by James Blish Download Open image ““[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...”” — James Blish ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish Copy Share Image
“The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows and the dark errands of the ghosts there was no longer any way of making a selection. He had entered the cobwebby borderland between the human and the animal, where nothing is ever more than half… — james blish Copy Share
Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“I expect that in the long run, when we get right down to the fundamental stuff of the universe, we’ll find that there’s nothing there at all—just nothings moving no-place through no-time. On the day that that happens, I’ll have God and you will not—otherwise there’ll be no difference between us.” — James Blish Copy Share
“[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was… — James Blish Copy Share Image
“She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.” — James Blish Copy Share Image
But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.” — James Blish Copy Share Image
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long.… — James Blish Copy Share Image
“I will be the first. As of tonight, I renounce my citizenship in the United Nations, and my allegiance to the Shelter state. From… — James Blish Copy Share Image