By seeking its end, the human being arrives at its beginning.… It is not proper to seek the beginning, as I said, as if it has been realized in the past (ὀπίσω γεγενημένην); but you must seek the end which lies ahead of you (τὸ τέλος ἔμπροσθεν ὑπάρχον); so that you know the beginning you left behind through the end, since you did not know the end from the beginning. And
