Finite Quotes - Page 12

• Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

  Paul Dirac

  Ideas, Numbers, Orbit

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• Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

  Donella Meadows

  Diversity, Gone, Earth

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• All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

  Robert Browning

  Infinite, Poetry Is

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• The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.

  Marco Brambilla

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Prayer, Essence

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

  James MacDonald

  Infinite, Transcendence

  James MacDonald (2012). “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.”, p.36, David C Cook

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• Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.

  Phyllis George

  Energy, Body, Limits

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We who must die demand a miracle.
  How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
  The Infinite become a finite fact?
  Nothing can save us that is possible:
  We who must die demand a miracle.

  W. H. Auden

  Miracle, Demand, Facts

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is exalted at the Father's right hand, and though as Jehovah He had eminent glories, in which finite creatures cannot share, yet as the Mediator, the honours which Jesus wears in heaven are the heritage of all the saints. It is delightful to reflect how close is Christ's union with His people. We are actually one with Him; we are members of His body; and His exaltation is our exaltation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Father

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• We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Speak, Mysticism

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• Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.

  Erik Wemple

  Hands, White, Numbers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

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• One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

  Karl Barth

  Powerful, Ocean, Weight

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

  Tom Perrotta

  Pain, Mind, Body

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, War, Ocean

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 13: "Who Speaks for Earth?", 1990.

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• you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Mean, Love Is

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.

  Yann Martel

  Struggle, Expression, Water

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

  J. D. Salinger

  Meditation, Use, Firsts

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

  Saul Alinsky

  Ideas, Economic Value, Political

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• All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Night, Men, Years

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• Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Essence, Suffering

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Numbers, Understanding

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• For too long we have tried to consume our
  way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted
  lands and oceans, climate change, growing
  scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh
  water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a
  new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the
  planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind
  to human beings, but we have not been kind to
  nature.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Ban Ki-moon's Press Conference on Rio+20, www.un.org. June 6, 2012.

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• Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Self, Two

  "The Sickness Unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, "A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death", 1849.

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