Infinity Quotes - Page 2

• The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

  Isaac Asimov

  Finals, Eternity, Ends

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The Far Ends of Time and Earth”

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• 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

  Infinite, Stuck, Explanation

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• The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

  Francis Chan

  Facts, Worship, Praise

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.184, David C Cook

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• Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Ongoing, Creation

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.210, Penguin

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• God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

  Alfred Jarry

  God, Zero, Humorous

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• 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

  Thinking, Tree, Argument

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.875, JHU Press

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lines, Possibility, Reaching

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Infinite, Thirst, Prove

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• I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wonder, Knows, Ifs

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• The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Ideas, Creative

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 39), 1986.

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• We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when we experience our connection to infinity that we’re able to dream powerfully.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Ocean, Water

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

  Umberto Eco

  Doe, Culture, Want

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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• 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

  Mind, Myopia, Ontology

  "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.

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• There can be no centre
  in infinity.

  Lucretius

  Centre

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• Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Real

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

  Jacques Maritain

  Business, Science, Ideas

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• An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Dream, Lying

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

  Alfred de Musset

  Helping, Spite, Torment

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• Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

  Aristotle

  Infinite, Quantity, Ifs

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• Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

  Eric Knight

  Earth Day, Mountain, Environmental

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

  Jean Cocteau

  God, Mystery Novels, Known

  Jean Cocteau (1967). “The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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