the kind of means we use will in themselves latley be the most impotant result i think..because the will determine directly wich person i will become..so as the most important result in my life is "Me" i should consider myself the most important End , and in the light of that decisions and means should be taken carefully.. exmpl : i want to succeed my exams , the "mean" (1) is to study hard and to pass the exam <==> then i am smarter and stronger than before the "mean" (2) is to cheat <==>then i am a future thief with nothing in my brain even if i succeed so beyond the fact of success is "me" as the real last "end"..would i loose my self for the first "end' to be done or consider myself as the most important result "end" sorry i don't find a simplest way to express it thanks

No - it's never as simple as that! You could also say "the proof is in the pudding" - meaning the process you went through will always show itself in the result. So if your means are dubious, the end will also be dubious no matter how good or beneficial you can explain your results to be.

Hi Olga. The "ends" are our end goals and the "means" are the specific actions we take to achieve those goals. "The ends justify the means" when the actions we take are considered acceptable because of the specific end results we want to achieve. Example: "I would prefer to do things differently, but in this situation, the ends justify the means." This saying is often used in the negative: "I agree with your goal, but the ends do not justify the means." However you cannot say that terrorism is ever justified.

Hi... No I don't think so... It is dangerous these days to say that!

I think absolutely no