Infinity Quotes - Page 18

Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.

Douglas Adams

Running, Mean, Exercise

Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

Emile M. Cioran

Regret, Desire, Too Late

"The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

Lorraine Hansberry

Dream, Giving Up, Circles

Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

Gustave Flaubert

Passion, Space, Crowds

"Madame Bovary".

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History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Events, Horizon, Invisible

Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra

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You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

Mike Carey

Mean, Hands, Space

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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal

Inspirational, Men, Vision

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Character, Mirrors, Infinite

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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

Edith Stein

Oneness, Broken, Diversity

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I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

William Alexander Percy

Stars, Voice, Silence

William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”

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A library is infinity under a roof.

Gail Carson Levine

Book, Library, Roof

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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

James Clavell

Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

Haven Kimmel

Ruins, Phantoms, Possibility

Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.35, Anchor

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An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Joseph Brodsky

Objects

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A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!

Paul Simon

Angel, Men, Sound

Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

E. M. Forster

Beautiful, Men, August

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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

Adventure, Goes On, Want

"The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Part 2, Chapter 2: "Time, activity, history", p. 412, 1970.

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Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

Jon Krakauer

Writing, Views, Symphony

Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

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The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

Gustave Flaubert

Terror, Approach, Deeper

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There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me

Gustave Flaubert

Crush, Two, Soul

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Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Humanity, Religion

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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Cousin, Party, Clouds

Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

Gottfried Leibniz

Past, Machines, Way

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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

Barry Hughart

Darkness, Brain, Tiny

Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.194, Spectra

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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.

Isabel Allende

Dream, Humility, Illusion

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