#man's end

[ypokeimenon]

Yes, man is his own end. And he is his only end. If he aims to be something, it is in this life. Now I know it only too well. Conquerors sometimes talk of vanquishing and overcoming. But it is always ‘overcoming oneself’ that they mean. You are well aware of what that means.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 1955, p.85