In looking for his end, man meets his origin, which essentially stands at the same point as his end … For he should not seek (ζητῆσαι) the beginning, as I have said, as something that lies behind him, but he should search for (ἐκζητῆσαι) the end which exists ahead of him, so that he may come to know through the end his lost origin, as he did not know the end from the beginning.39
