Finite Quotes - Page 9

• At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Distance, Thinking, Profound

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• We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Support, Causes

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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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• i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

  Melissa Bank

  Giving, Want, Strange

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.205, Penguin

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

  Justin Rosenstein

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Opportunity

  "We Are the Founders of Asana, and This Is the Story Behind the App". Interview with Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com. March 05, 2014.

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• I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

  Diane Lane

  Gun, Directors, Negative

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• Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Tired, Buddhism

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• The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Simple

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• One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

  Karl Barth

  Powerful, Ocean, Weight

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Finite Number, Numbers, Desire

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• 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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• 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 nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life And Death, Passing Away, Essentials

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• Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Essence, Suffering

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Numbers, Understanding

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• For too long we have tried to consume our
  way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted
  lands and oceans, climate change, growing
  scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh
  water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a
  new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the
  planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind
  to human beings, but we have not been kind to
  nature.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Ban Ki-moon's Press Conference on Rio+20, www.un.org. June 6, 2012.

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• Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Self, Two

  "The Sickness Unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, "A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death", 1849.

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• For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Able, Meaning Of Life

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Science, Historical

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• Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

  Gary Marcus

  Knowing, Mind, Noble

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• If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Religion, Want

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