The End of Summer, p. 32
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Fisher Ames (1758–1808) American politician
American Literature (1805), in [Ames, Fisher, and Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames: with a selection from his speeches and correspondence, 1854, Little, Brown, 441, Boston, https://books.google.com/books?id=fjoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA441#v=onepage]
“A trail without beginning has no end.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley book The Door Through Space
Source: The Door Through Space (1961), Chapter 5.
“God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
“Everything has to end before it can begin.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Full text of Russell's book History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools), written in 1959 and published on his ninetieth birthday, as quoted in Slater Bertrand Russell (1994), p. 136
1950s
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: Nuremberg Party Rally (14 Sept. 1935) Quoted in Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1931-1945, Chronicle of a Dictatorship, Max Domarus (ed.), Vol. 2, London, p. 701.
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
