“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.”
Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes

Attributed to Aristotle in Bernhoff A. Dahl, Optimize Your Life! http://books.google.gr/books?id=B1Z2XP_DamQC&dq=, Trionics International Inc., 2005, p. 111.
Disputed

Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On God

Speech for the United Nations. http://www.undp.org/goodwill/ronaldo.shtml

“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”
Variant: Every heart has its own melody.
Source: Clockwork Princess
The Proletariat and Education: The Necessity for Labor Colleges