„Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche
„My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.“
— Ayn Rand
„Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for goals.“
— Aristotle
„If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.“
— Hannah Arendt
„Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.“
— Cassandra Clare