Infinity Quotes - Page 19

• Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boredom, Trying, Window

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• Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

  Rudy Rucker

  Teaching, Math, Drawing

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation

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• Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Men, Perception, Caverns

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Jobs

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• Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

  Joseph Murphy

  Life, Eye, House

  Joseph Murphy (2012). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Government, People

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• Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

  Lily Tomlin

  Science, Ego, Ego Trip

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• A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Religious, Nice

  Oscar Niemeyer (2003). “Oscar Miemeyer, a Legend of Modernism”

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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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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Details, Different

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, World

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.

  Daniel Handler

  Enough, Stills

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.70, Egmont UK

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• My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

  John Green

  Littles, Faults, Lancaster

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Night, Men

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• Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

  Norton Juster

  Phantom Tollbooth, Poor, Ends

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.160, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Real, Bunch

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

  Aberjhani

  Heart, Broken, Rose

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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