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• Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

  William Mountford

  Summer, Winter, Branches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 421), 1895.

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• Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Answers, Might

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Religious, Fun, Loss

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Supernatural Beings, Soul, Mind

  1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.

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• Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

  Louis Pasteur

  Real, Men, Democracy

  Lecture delivered after the death of Émile Littré, April 27, 1882.

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• Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Knowledge, Mean

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.52, Penguin

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• A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

  Carl Sagan

  Numbers, Mind, Matter

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 220, 1980.

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Style

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.

  Joan Miro

  Depth, Movement, Limits

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Looks, Hinduism, Divine

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• We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

  Conor McPherson

  Veils, Littles, Knows

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• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Daughter, Distance, Son

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Humanity

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• The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Awareness

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• It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Looks

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• The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Buddhism, Mind

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• The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Brain

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• There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds

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• I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.

  Deepak Chopra

  World, Timeless

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Perception

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• During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Afternoon

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• The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Light, Mind

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

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• When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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