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• Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

  Denis Diderot

  Distance, Sky, Towers

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Sex, Reality, Doctrine

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.213, Random House

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• An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.

  R. A. Torrey

  Mean, Thinking, Glorious Life

  R.A TORREY, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”, Lulu.com

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• Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Eye, Angel

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

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• No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Night, Grieving

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.93, Aum Publications

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• Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Eternal, Highest

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#26618, Part 267), 1983.

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Connections, Spiritual Intelligence

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• Dieu est le point tangent de ze  ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

  Alfred Jarry

  Zero

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Energy, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 294), 1895.

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• Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Faith, Voice, Deep Life

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• O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.

  William Mountford

  Humility, Almighty, Feels

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.267

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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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• The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

  David Luiz

  Painting, Possibility, Unification

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Painting

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• Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Glimpse, Emotion, Horror

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

  Roland Barthes

  Adventure, Literature, World

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• We all have come from infinity, We all live within infinity, We all shall return to infinity, We are all manifestation of one infinity, We are all brothers and sisters of one infinite universe, Let us love each other, Let us help each other, Let us encourage each other, Let us all together continue to realize The endless dream of one peaceful world, We are always ONE forever.

  Michio Kushi

  Dream, Brother, Forever

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• ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Agreement, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Lovable

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• To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unity, Flesh, Dignity

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2020, Cosimo, Inc.

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