Infinite Quotes - Page 28

• To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Meditation, Existence

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• To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Ideas, Needs

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• Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Mind

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• How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Friendship, Men, Yield

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirit, Reaching, Planets

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• As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Long, Suffering

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• Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

  Phillips Brooks

  Comfort, Trouble, Duty

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

  William Shenstone

  Jest, Sensible, Discourse

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.176

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• This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Light

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• The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Wish

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• Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Nature, Science

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Growth, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Father, Son, Echoes

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• Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love Is, Giving, Brave

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• Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

  James Whistler

  Art, Progress, Art Is

  James McNeill Whistler (1967). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Men, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moments, Hours, Resolute

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• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Past, Journey, Three

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Likes

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• The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Tragedy, Ladders, Limits

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner (1997). “The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Expression, Sublime

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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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• What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [256]

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