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| 4422 | The end need not be the goal, as in the playing of a melody (and yet it must be completed) |
| Full Idea: Not every end is the goal; the end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable. | |||
| From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Wanderer and his Shadow [1880], §204) | |||
| A reaction: A nice message for Aristotle, that there is no simple separation of ends and means. |