Finite Quotes - Page 14

• Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Real, Philosophical

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Mind

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• We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Speak, Mysticism

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• You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

  Annie Leonard

  Running, Planets, Linear

  "Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness" by Celia Cole, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.

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• There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

  Diane Lane

  Responsibility, Joy, Want

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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• Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

  Matt Haig

  Wonder, Infinite

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made
  Completely solid, hither and thither fly
  Forevermore unconquered through all time,
  Now come, and whether to the sum of them
  There be a limit or be none, for thee
  Let us unfold; likewise what has been found
  To be the wide inane, or room, or space
  Wherein all things soever do go on,
  Let us examine if it finite be
  All and entire, or reach unmeasured round
  And downward an illimitable profound.

  Lucretius

  Space, Profound, Goes On

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mistake, Men, Long

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• Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is being imposed on them. I want the actors to feel that this is their own role, and that they can go back to point zero and develop this character.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Zero, Writing, Character

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film 'The Past'". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Understanding, Fields

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• If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Want, Sides, Infinite

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• The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, World, Resources

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

  A.J. Ayer

  Numbers, Finite Number, May

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 20), 1936.

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• God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

  Henry James

  Men, Infinite, Form

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.317

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• The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  May, Littles, Infinite

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• The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Inspiration, Insecurity

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• Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

  Greg Laurie

  Country, Jesus, Cities

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Infinity, Movement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.364, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.206, New York Review of Books

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• Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Innovation, Saving, Stuff

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• Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Politics, Way

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• We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

  Herman E. Daly

  Needs, Purpose, World

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