
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 15.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”
Source: Miles to Go
B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
Book IV, line 16. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays (1580), Book I, Chapter 19.
Variant translation: When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
Astronomica
Message from the Queen, read by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, St Thomas's Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue. 22 September 2001. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1341155/Grief-is-price-of-love-says-the-Queen.html