Finite Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Running, Pandas, Paper

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• For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

  Adrian Bejan

  Way, Flow, Size

  Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

  Galileo Galilei

  Hands, Might, Void

  Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake (1974). “Two new sciences, including centers of gravity & force of percussion”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  Otto Weininger

  Reality, Doe, Genius

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

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• God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

  James Martineau

  Nature, Agency, Law

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 431), 1895.

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• All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Perfect, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.161, Transaction Publishers

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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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• The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.

  Georg Cantor

  Mean, Matter, Limits

  "Communications on the Theory of the Transfinite ('Mitteilungen zur Lehre vom Transfiniten')". Book by Georg Cantor, 1888.

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Doctors, Safety

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• It's the best proposal that we ought to have, because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family-friendly. And instead we've had Congress that's spent money like [John] Edwards at a beauty shop.

  Mike Huckabee

  Friendly, Proposal, Family Friends

  The Republican Presidential primary debate at the University of South Carolina, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2007.

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• With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

  Mark Rothko

  Order, Identity, Association

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.59, Yale University Press

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• Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mean, Mind, Measurement

  "Schrödinger: Life and Thought". Book by Walter Moore, 1989.

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• From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Real, Taken, Clouds

  "Vortex". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2011.

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• Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Matter, Mediums, Our Lives

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Children, Women, Responsibility

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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