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• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sleep, Reality, Sea

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Destiny, Men, Deep Water

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Wisdom, Faces, Equal

  Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1918). “Lazarus”

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• Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Hands, Eternity

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.423, Lotus Press

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• The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

  Meher Baba

  Expression, People, Isms

  "Discourses, Volume I". Book by Meher Baba, 1967.

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Wall, Ideas, Space

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Zero, Littles

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.27, Vintage

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• The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Matter, Infinite

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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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• Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

  Wendy Farley

  Optimistic, Wings, Joy

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

  E. Lee Spence

  Intelligent, Design, Firsts

  "An Interview with Dr. E. Lee Spence" by Aaron Harding, Journal of the Sea Research Society, Volume 5, #3, p. 24,

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• I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

  Martina McBride

  Geometric Shapes, Trying, Patterns

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• If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

  Aristotle

  Desire, Would Be, Goes On

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press

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• The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

  Jacques Derrida

  Men, Limits, Determined

  Jacques Derrida (1982). “Margins of Philosophy”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

  Charles A. Beard

  Destiny, Mirrors, Evil

  "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.

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• I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Eternity, Terror, Behinds

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• Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

  David Hilbert

  Understanding, Consistency, Intuition

  "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.

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• The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Would Be, Praise, Should

  Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.200, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophical, Objectivity, Principles

  "L'Encyclopédie", Article on Philosophy, Volume 25, 1766.

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• Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Possibility

  "Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

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• What is this eternity to me without you?
  What is the infinity of my domains?
  Empty ringing words,
  A spacious temple - without a divinity!

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Temples, Divinity, Empty

  "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

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• A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Heart, Sea, Fishing

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• The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Sight

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• The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

  Georges Danton

  Character, Littles, Sometimes

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