Finite Quotes - Page 12

• On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Journey

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• Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Years, Kali

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• Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

  Rose Tremain

  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

  Craig S. Keener

  Thinking, Understanding, Purpose

  Craig S. Keener (2001). “Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today”, p.30, Baker Academic

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Character, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  War, Men, Tasks

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Hands, Infinity

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.423, Lotus Press

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• The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.

  Charles Babbage

  Christian, Pain, Kindness

  "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher". Book by Charles Babbage, 1864.

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• The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.

  Meher Baba

  Real, Games, Play

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  Warren Farrell

  Littles, Mystery, Infinite

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Ideas, Differences

  Jacques Derrida (1978). “Writing and Difference”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Angel, Numbers, House

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

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• Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

  Twyla Tharp

  Important, Energy, Resources

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Mad, Growth

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• Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

  Patrick Michaels

  Cancer, Fighting, Issues

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• Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

  Julian Simon

  Past, Years, Giving

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• There is a solitude of space.
  A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Space, Sea, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

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• Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Enlightenment, Done

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• The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Form, Fallen

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• The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

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• According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Two, Mind

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• In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Stronger, Study

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