Best 396 quotes in «infinity quotes» category

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

I've seen a lot more go to zero than infinity.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

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.

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.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

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

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

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?

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.

That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

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.

The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential.

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.

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.