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• Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Mind, Infinity, Finite

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Religious, Catholic

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Heart, Self

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• The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Science, Space, Silence

  Pensees no. 233 (1658)

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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Children, Giving

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• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.

  Anita Moorjani

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.161, Hay House, Inc

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Patience, Drinking, Funny Sarcastic

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Life, Stars, Eye

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Philosophical, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Faith, Subtle, Chains

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• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

  Huston Smith

  Gratitude, Future, Responsibility

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Angel, Moon Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Giving

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• Le silence e  ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

  Blaise Pascal

  Space, Silence, Dread

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.206 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Greatness, Men

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mind

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