“In the beginngless beginning
there was
the Meaning”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 92
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Dutch painter 1909–2006Related quotes
Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
General sources
Context: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.
“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17
“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source
“Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.”
The Inn Album (1875).
“Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.”
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.”
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101
Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
As quoted in Hard-to-Solve Cryptograms (2001) by Derrick Niederman, p. 96