Infinity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
-- Adam Clarke -
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
-- Alan Lightman -
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
-- Alexander Smith -
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
-- Alfred de Musset -
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
-- Alfred Jarry -
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
-- Andrew Wiles -
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
-- Ariel Durant -
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
-- Blaise Pascal -
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
-- Brandon Boyd -
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
-- China Mieville -
I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.
-- Chris Crutcher -
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
-- Conor McPherson -
log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.
-- Daniel Shanks -
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.
-- David Deutsch -
I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.
-- Deepak Chopra -
What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.
-- Derek R. Audette -
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
-- Edgar Quinet -
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
-- Edmond de Goncourt -
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
-- Ella Maillart -
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
-- Emile Durkheim -
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
-- Epicurus -
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
-- Eric Knight -
I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.
-- Eyedea -
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain ...
-- Fay Weldon -
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
-- Galileo Galilei -
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
-- Gentry Lee -
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
-- Georg Cantor -
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
-- Gian-Carlo Rota -
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
-- Giordano Bruno -
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
-- Grant Morrison -
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
-- Haven Kimmel -
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
-- Herbie Hancock -
It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.
-- Herman Bavinck -
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity
-- Isaac Asimov -
The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.
-- Jacques Derrida -
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
-- John Green -
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.
-- Kazimir Malevich -
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
-- Leonid Andreyev -
Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.
-- Li-Young Lee -
Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.
-- Linda Hogan -
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
-- Lord Byron -
In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.
-- Louise Hay -
Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.
-- Louise Hay -
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
-- Ludwig Feuerbach -
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.
-- Marita Bonner -
Through all the windows I only see infinity.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
-- Matsuo Basho -
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
-- Max Weber -
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity!
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
-- Norton Juster -
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
-- Norton Juster -
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.
-- Robert Young -
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
-- Rumi -
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
-- Sally-Ann Roberts -
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
-- Sergei Dovlatov -
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.
-- Sri Chinmoy -
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.
-- Susan Stewart -
I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory
-- Vern Poythress -
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
-- Wendy Farley
