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• Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Men, Secret

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Men, What Matters

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Ignorant, Limits

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Earth, Eternity

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2015

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• Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Cadavers, Bitterness

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• You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it. I prefer finite mathematics much more than infinite mathematics. I think that it is much more natural, much more appealing and the theory is much more beautiful. It is very concrete. It is something that you can touch and something you can feel and something to relate to. Infinity mathematics, to me, is something that is meaningless, because it is abstract nonsense.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Beautiful, Science, Thinking

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• In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

  James Gleick

  Eye, Mind, Way

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

  John Derbyshire

  Beauty, Math, Numbers

  John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

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• Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Cells, Practice, Joy

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• Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Echoes, Museums, Voice

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Easter, Encounters, Way

  Eugen Drewermann (1994). “Dying We Live: Meditations for Lent and Easter”

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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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• The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.

  Doug Stanhope

  Spring, Passion, Men

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• There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

  Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

  Errors, Political, Principles

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• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Heaven, Darkness

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Effort

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• Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Ideas, Coincidence

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.326, Indiana University Press

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• Death is just infinity closing in.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Closing

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• We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  And Love, Use, Ascent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Boredom, Want

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Transition

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Layers, Sensitive, Cases

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• There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Goes On, Limits

  Samuel Hahnemann (1893). “Organon of Medicine”

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