“Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.” EndsSelfLife IsUnionsSakeSeparationReductionLife Death Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.” WayDoeEndsValuesCreaturesCapacitySakeConsumerismOverconsumption Author:Thomas Merton
“Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.” WayEndsWholePleasureMissingDutySakeWhole LifeRighteousDoomHeed Author:Eugene Ionesco