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• Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!

  Horace Walpole

  Ignorance, Discovery, Ideas

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• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Glowing, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

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• When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

  Charles K. Kao

  Pieces, Information, Individual

  "Charles K. Kao" by Jim Erickson and Yulanda Chung, www.cnn.com.

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• I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be positive and you can be beautiful, I don't think its a person or god, I don't believe in any particular doctrine or dogma, only that humanity is connected.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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• Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Reality, Firsts

  "Rule of Life", 1815.

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• In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Morning, Ocean, Simple

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• In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Men, Behaviour, Opinion

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

  Rachel Carson

  Past, Reality, Numbers

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Forgiving, Earth

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.115, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  Randall Jarrell

  Voice, Age, Novelists

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Believe, Heart, Sacrifice

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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• An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Actors, Praise

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Space

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

  Immanuel Kant

  Simple, Two, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Notes and Fragments”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Littles, Majesty

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Art, Lying

  Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics

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• Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Mad, Growth

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• While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

  Eric Butterworth

  People, Trying, Tunes

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