“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.” MayArtEndsEarthUsedOrderFightingHeavenSunFourReturnNeededVictoryBattleMoonFlowRiversDirectSeasonsMethodSecureStreamsMartial ArtsTacticsJoiningPassing AwayHeaven And EarthUnendingIndirectFour Seasons Book:The Art of War Source: The Art of War
“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.” MenChildrenDoeEndsJoySunTreeSeaReturnLiftsAnguishRenewalLoftyCoconutsCyclones Author:Paul Gauguin
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.” MadeTwoEndsSunShadowSticksHeightRaysPyramidsTriangles Author:Thales
“Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.” MenWorldLongEndsEarthNightTimeSunEternalRoundsStableArrows Author:Jean Giono
“In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.” EndsWaterCompassionSunMiddleFruitSeedsWarmthRipeningWarmth Of The Sun Author:Gautama Buddha
“If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.” IfsMenDoeEndsEarthStarsDifferencesSunDogEternity Book:Everybody's Autobiography Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?” WorldWayEndsMatterMovingOrderFallStarsSunPlanetsEmptyAriseVainFixedHinderDenseCometsOrbs Author:Isaac Newton