Finite Quotes - Page 13

• For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Able, Meaning Of Life

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Science, Historical

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• Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

  Gary Marcus

  Knowing, Mind, Noble

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• Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Needs, Belief

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

  Stephenie Meyer

  Resources

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

  Cassandra Clare

  Sad, Time, Get Well

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life And Death, Passing Away, Essentials

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• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

  George Monbiot

  Business, Reality, Ideas

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• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sunshine, Greatness, Men

  "Selections from Carlyle".

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• We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Nature, Asylums

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Perfection, Inspire, Desire

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• This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mind, Fundamentals, Embrace

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.74, Spiegel & Grau

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• Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.

  Felicia Day

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

  Ethan Hawke

  Knowing, Life Is

  "Immortal smoker Ethan Hawke" by monstersandcritics.com, January 6, 2010.

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• There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Littles, Moments

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• The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Lying, Expression

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.234, Spectra

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• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Civilization, Decay, Moments

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• Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

  Justin Rosenstein

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Opportunity

  "We Are the Founders of Asana, and This Is the Story Behind the App". Interview with Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com. March 05, 2014.

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• Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Fire, Climate

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

  Rene Descartes

  Way, Infinite, Should

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

  Zhuangzi

  Chinese, Life Is, Infinite

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• If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Religion, Want

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• Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
  And in the unlimited limits appear,
  So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
  And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
  What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
  The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Joy

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